Re: [Marxism] Either a socialist revolution or a caricature of revolution

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was written over four decades ago. At that time, Cuba was completely
isolated in Latin America with only Mexico retaining diplomatic relations.

Today, virtually every country in Latin America recognizes Cuba and has
normal relations with it. The bourgeoisies of Latin America, wno are not
socialist revolutionaries, have begun to find it in their own interests now
to distance themselves from Washington. This simple reality has not had
any impact on some who refuse to recognize that the world is different in
many ways today, and that different tasks and perspectives flow from the
changes in the objective international situation of our epoch.

The Soviet Union was an alternative pole of attraction and an alternative
model for social development, though deformed by bureaucratic degener-
ation. Trotsky´s analysis in THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED retains its validity
today. I bring copies and pass them out to friends interested in understanding
why Cuba´s principal ally collapsed. We can all learn a lot from Trotsky´s
writings on the degeneration of the Russian Revolution.

Thanks for the 40-year old quotation from Che Guevara. Fidel said very much
the same thing in the SECOND DECLARATION OF HAVANA. However neither
he nor the other leaders of the Cuban Revolution say these things today. 
They recognize that there have been a few changes in the last forty years.

Not everyone is as objective as are the leaders of the Cuban Revolution.


Walter Lippmann

LOUIS PROYECT QUOTED (without explaining why):
 http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/clibrary/library-articles/chelib02.html





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