RE: [Marxism] The two souls of socialism (was: RE:JohnHolloway-AlexCal linicos debate)

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

What Mark writes (about Cuba being considered by the US ruling class
as "theirs" by right) is one side of the coin about Cuba's strategic
importance. The other side is its continued existence as a bastion of
socialism -- which if anything is MORE strategically important to the
US, as a negative example, since the dismantling of the other workers'
states. For Cuba to have withstood so many multiple pressures, and to
have found new allies, in a period when the US has bent all efforts
to convince the world that there is no alternative to imperialism,
makes it a prime target.

The fact that the revolution remains a workers' state could have been
used by Callinicos as proof of the weakness of Holloway's claim: for
such an isolated, economically weak state to hold out for so long
with so few deformations is about the best proof you'd want of how
democratic and prosperous a workers' state could be in an
industrialized country -- and a proof too that fears of inevitable
Stalinism if workers build our own state are just petty-bourgeois
fears of revolution itself.





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