Re: [Marxism] New leadership may spark change in Cuba

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:39 PM 9/2/2006, you wrote:
> But nowhere in any of this do we see any sign of "socialist democracy." It 
> is well and good to say that Cuba remains "tranquil" in the face of an 
> internal development, but why should socialists applaud a handing of power 
> from one revolutionary individual to another?  Where is the input/control 
> by the masses?  This falls short not only of socialist ideals, but also of 
> soviet democracy during the early years of the USSR. Why relinquish 
> adherence to radical democratic/socialist ideals?
>    Another point:  why is it that even the bourgeois press has not 
> brought up the past homosexual behavior by Raul Castro that got Allen 
> Ginsberg thrown out of Cuba? That seems odd, to say the least.
> David

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