[Marxism] Sam Farber and other, better, things...

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't read Farber's piece (probably won't). But the Hansen piece 
cited by Walter always appeared to me as a severe contortion to the 
point of mutation of Castro's position on the events in Prague in 1968. 
Anyone can see that Castro, and I presume the Cuban Communist Party in 
their majority, was highly peeved about what went down. No one can 
seriously disagree with Castro's implicit charge of hypocrisy on the 
part of the Warsaw Pact. I think Hansen, while providing an interesting 
parsing of Castro's view on this, fails to get down to the brass tacts: 
Fidel defended the invasion. He certainly criticized the USSR/Warsaw 
pact, but at the end of the day, Castro was on the wrong side. Hansen 
seems to avoid this conclusion and does his readers a disservice.

David

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