I too was going to respond to Mark and John’s comments about what - today - constitutes solidarity for the Cuban people. But as to be expected not quite echoing Michael's point. However - to adopt a position of solidarity does not mean to " not criticise”.
For - The origins of the inability of the Cuban state to defend itself against today’s USA imperialism - at bottom - reflects the refusal from the days of Castro’s first power -to decisively move to adopt to socialism. Hence a critiism. His own, and Guevera’s guerrilla substitution for working class and peasant actions was the hallmark. Thereafter accession to power came when USA imperialism decided its own agents were clearly exposed. It is not necessary to rehearse Castro’s overtures to USA impeirlism, before finally being forced to become depndent upon then revisionist USSR imperilaims. Until the latter could not help… and this steady slide into dependency on tourism and medical exportism. I do not intend to rehearse all this, many have exposed and we did in the distinctly un-fashionable manner for the 1960s (only web-published in the 1990s -> http://ml-review.ca/aml/CommunistLeague/Compass101-Cuba92.htm and http://ml-review.ca/aml/MLOB/GuerrilaEliteFIN.htm ). I felt a grain of truth in Mark and John’s comments - in asking is it timely to kick the Cuban people’s anguish a step farther to criticise at this time? It is why actually we ourselves chose not to republish the above two articles on our current site. For us, we refrained at this particular time. But I do think criticisms need to be voiced. The timing may well be considered so as not to “rub salt into wounds”. But these criticisms need to surface. For some of the Cuban people, past key mis-steps are certain to be analysed. Some might well be asking - even now - at this bitter moment, "as we who look back why did our socialism fail?” For these a criticism may be useful. Cheers Hari -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41739): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41739 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119270444/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
