RE: [Pen-l] aren't you glad that socialism is still a dirty word?

["Carl Dassbach" <dassbach@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds true to me... after all, its revolutionary.

CHAD

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] aren't you glad that socialism is still a dirty word?

Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Ironically the effort to demonize the popular Obama as a socialist
> helps to rehabilitate . . . socialism.  It reminds me of a statement I
> heard attributed to a Cuban peasant, "If Fidel is a communist I'm one
> too."

This reminds me of a likely apocryphal story of the early days of the
Cuban revolution. Castro and the boys were really tired from
revolutionizing. Fidel asked "who here is an economist"? Che said "I
am!", because he misheard it as "who here is a communist"? He became
head of the Bank of Cuba as a result.

As I said, it's likely not true.



-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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