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Re: Re: Re: Singing to Tractors (was Re: O Happy Day)

Louis Proyect wrote:

There is another angle that you don't seem to get. Let me repeat it. Cuba
suffered from a historic gulf between the city and the countryside. In
Havana during the 1950s wages actually increased at a higher level than
they did in the United States. Batista had curried favor with a
predominantly white and urban trade union movement the way that the AD
party in Venezuela had.


Yoshie's not talking just about Cuba, but also about certain Western
intellectuals fascination with Cuba - e.g. certain alienated
urbanites who couldn't last more than a half-day in a steel mill when
ordered to go there by their workerist party.

Doug


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