On 11/4/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you were to build a pro-Milosevic and anti-Iran party, indeed you
>would have to build a party of one, unless you can stomach Jared
>Israel. :->
>--
>Yoshie
Actually, I always had qualms about Jared even before he had left the
planet Earth for destinations unknown. Anybody devoted every fiber of
energy for providing free public relations for the Serbian government
or any other foreign government on the Internet struck me as
ill-advised. I tried to ground my writings on Yugoslavia in a Marxist
analysis rather than the kind of apologetics that Anna Louise Strong
used to provide for the USSR and then China, but that's just me, I
guess. Walter Lippmann does that sort of pro bono work for Cuba and I
don't appreciate it at all. Anything I write about Cuba proceeds from
a class analysis rather than a misguided effort to become a
cybercitizen of another country, no matter how virtuous. I am
alienated but my alienation has never adopted that kind of grotesque outlet.
IMHO, the labor of love Walter Lippmann performs for Cuba via Cuba
News is a good thing. It makes Cuban materials accessible to
non-Spanish-speaking individuals elsewhere, and the quality of
translation Walter and his comrades provide is often higher than what
the Cuban government does for itself. Generally speaking, there are
too few materials from the rest of the world -- almost any part of the
world -- translated into English. Lack of interest in foreign
materials is the dominant tendency in American publishing and
bookselling, rather than of the Left per se, but the tendency doesn't
help us, so those folks like Walter doing something to remedy this
problem should receive our gratitude, even if you happen not to share
Walter's perspective on Cuba or anything else.
--
Yoshie
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