Re: [Marxism] Fidel Castro: "The Powerless Powers"

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> (Here Fidel takes up the defense ... of the
> emerging economic powerhouses of the Third World, such as China
> and Brazil.

I read this article by Fidel Castro twice and could find no such thing 
except these references:

âPresident Hu Jintao denied accusations that the food crisis was due
to the economic growth of some of the developing countries."

âLula suggested that FAO attributed the global rise in food prices to
speculative maneuvers with raw materials.â

ââRussia is extremely annoyed over Washington and Prague signing an
agreement on Tuesday for a space shield,â said President Medvedev in
Japan.â

But the main thrust of the article is this, the conclusion:

These are all dated July 11. In these lines one could add dozens of
similar news items that were printed on the same day. On Saturdays,
information diminishes; Sundays, there is hardly any news, the
journalists are resting. Today is Monday.

In our world of today, every day there are new and ever-more thorny
problems rising up and they drain the abilities of the heads of state
and governments who are called upon to deal with them.

This is not a criticism: it is an observation. It cannot be expected
of human beings to have supernatural abilities.

Optimism will always be the best option. There is no other
alternative. That's the reason why I once spoke about a species in
danger of becoming extinct.

---

I understand that Walter is a huge fan of "economic development" in 
Brazil and China over the bodies of enslaved sugar cane workers and dead 
miners, but let's not draft Fidel Castro into his fan club so quickly.





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