Re: [Marxism] Cuba and "Socialism from Below" [was: the ISO's conference]

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 22, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
>
> That's like the Catholic Church saying that sometimes --although only
> extremely rarely-- the Pope can be a little wrong, even when speaking
> ex-cathedra. If papal infallibility is papal bull, then the whole
> ideological edifice comes crashing down.


Before Pio Nono decreed papal infallibility, the "ideological edifice"  
had held up just fine for some 1500 years.  And it's current collapse  
would  be retatded, not hastened, were some Vatican III to reverse Pio  
Nono's dogma.

But how well would the Fidelista "ideological edifice" withstand an  
admission that, even for opportunistic reasons, Fidel had taken a  
counterrevolutionary action in endorsing the Stalinist suppression of  
the Prague Spring--and that the suppression for more than 40 years  
even of any critical discussion of this betrayal was and is itself a  
Stalinist blot on the Cuban Revolution?


Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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