Re: [Marxism] RE:It's those damn petty-bourgeois at it again!

[Anna Fierling <anna_fierling@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've lost track of who wrote these sentences below, but this is offensively 
ill-informed; whoever wrote this, please: 1) read Castro's 1968 speech on 
Czechoslovakia (most of which is a critique of Soviet bureaucratic 
'socialism'); your phrase "principled anti-imperialist stance" recalls the 
Guardian's recent attribution to Chomsky of phrases he had never uttered, and 
2) read something about the COMECON and Cuba's place in it.

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  You see, this is the part where the mythology of revolution comes into it.
Cuba was not 'blockaded by imperialism', it was blockaded by Western
imperialism, it was very, VERY cosy with the other imperialist power of the
day, the USSR. We all know the Beard's enthusiasm for the Soviet's invasion
of Czechoslovakia - a 'principled anti-imperialist' stance, I'm sure you'll
agree.

This sordid little association guranteed a certain security for Cuba and its
economy - allowing them to make the 'real gains' that they did in social
provision.



Anna Fierling
Otto-Suhr-Institut
FU-Berlin

"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden."
                
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