Re: [Marxism] More Anti-Fidel Crap From Sam Farber

[Steve Olson <noarch99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just finished reading Farber's essay in New Politics - even more of the same.
  http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue43/Farber43.htm

Jscotlive@xxxxxxx wrote:
  The following appeared in the latest edition of the International Socialist 
Review, a bi-monthly magazine produced and distributed by the UK SWP. 



REVIEW ESSAY
Fidel Castro's political testament 
Fidel Castro: Biografía a Dos Voces
Ignacio Ramonet
Random House Mondadori â?¢ 2006 â?¢ 655 pages 
REVIEW by SAM FARBER 
THIS IS a book-long interview, the outcome of conversations that Ignacio 
Ramonet, the Spanish-born editor of the Parisian Le Monde Diplomatique, had 
with 
Fidel Castro from January 2003 to December 2005. A short time after the book 
came out, Castro stepped aside as head of state on July 31, 2006, due to a 
serious illness, the nature of which was declared a state secret. His younger 
brother Raúl, officially designated as his successor since the early days of 
the 1959 Revolution, replaced him â??for the time being.â??1 The timing of 
Castroâ??
s illness and the release of Ramonetâ??s book led the Cuban governmentâ??s 
media to make a lot more out of this publishing event than might have otherwise 
been the case. Significantly, the ample coverage and serialization of Ramonetâ??
s interview was accompanied by the Cuban mediaâ??s serialization of the 
Secretos de Generales,2 containing the biographies of forty-one top Cuban 
generals, 
which had already appeared and been serialized ten years earlier. The 
official media, while glorifying Fidel, were simultaneously building up the 
image of 
the top army brass. 
contd: _http://www.isreview.org/issues/54/castro.shtml_ 
(http://www.isreview.org/issues/54/castro.shtml) 




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