Re: [Marxism] more from Castro on recent cabinet changes

[Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara@xxxxxxxxx>]

He was awfully harsh on the center-left regime in Spain, but he was oh so
friendly with Franco.


"2. *Elitism*. – We have mentioned several cases of this conviction that
socialism is the business of a new ruling minority, non-capitalist in nature
and therefore guaranteed pure, imposing its own domination either
temporarily (for a mere historical era) or even permanently. In either case,
this new ruling class is likely to see its goal as an Educational
Dictatorship over the masses – to Do Them Good, of course – the dictatorship
being exercised by an elite party which suppresses all control from below,
or by benevolent despots or Savior-Leaders of some kind, or by Shaw’s
“Supermen,” by eugenic manipulators, by Proudhon’s “anarchist” managers or
Saint-Simon’s technocrats or their more modern equivalents"
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