Re: [Marxism] The true Fidel Castro
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. * 1. James O'Connor, "Origins of Socialism in Cuba" 2. Edward Boorstein, "Economic Transformation of Cuba" 3. Arnold August, "Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-1998 Elections" 4. Frank Fitzgerald, "The Cuban Revolution in crisis: from managing socialism to managing survival" 5. Carlos Tablada, "Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition Period" 6. Philip Brenner, "The Cuba Reader" 7. Carolee Bengelsdorf, "Cuba in transition : crisis and transformation" 8. Margaret Randall, "Women in Cuba" 9. Maurice Zeitlin, "Revolutionary politics and the Cuban working class" 10. Richard Gott's History of Cuba 11. Ignacio Ramonet's Interviews of Fidel Castro 12. Steve Cushion: "A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory" _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The true Fidel Castro
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. * I would start with this book. https://www.amazon.com/Fidel-Castro-Life-Spoken-Autobiography/dp/1416562338 On 11/27/2016 12:20 AM, Joaquim Gibson via Marxism wrote: 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. * I have been following this list for at least a year. I continue to learn from the great information posted here. But now it's time for me to post. I hope this post is appropriate. I grew in Florida during the 1970s and 80s. Fidel was a pariah. I would like to be able to say I challenged this thinking, but I didn't. However I did think even then that Miami had serious anger management issues and they just spouted the same tired angry cliches. The Cuba I learned about via my radio was vastly different from what I was told was fact. In college, around 1990, I took a course on the Cuban Revolution. It greatly changed my views not only on Cuba, but about the US's disastrous history of imperialism. What I learned and remembered dove tails with what Louis Proyect posted yesterday. < http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm> All of this brings me to my question. What books do you recommend about Fidel and the Cuban Revolution in general? I see many available, but it seems more than not, they're just anti-Castro pablum. BTW, Louis, I have now found this page of yours < http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mypage.htm> which I plan to reference as I continue my journey left. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/jonflan%40gmail.com -- *Please note, this will be my primary email from now on. I had to switch from Verizon to Time Warner, its now *jonf...@gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The true Fidel Castro
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. * It isn't about Castro himself or the revolution, but I found Visions of Freedom (http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3458) to be an amazing book. And ones I can't yet vouch for myself: A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory by Steve Cushion A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics Edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff -- Tristan Sloughter t...@crashfast.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The true Fidel Castro
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. * I have been following this list for at least a year. I continue to learn from the great information posted here. But now it's time for me to post. I hope this post is appropriate. I grew in Florida during the 1970s and 80s. Fidel was a pariah. I would like to be able to say I challenged this thinking, but I didn't. However I did think even then that Miami had serious anger management issues and they just spouted the same tired angry cliches. The Cuba I learned about via my radio was vastly different from what I was told was fact. In college, around 1990, I took a course on the Cuban Revolution. It greatly changed my views not only on Cuba, but about the US's disastrous history of imperialism. What I learned and remembered dove tails with what Louis Proyect posted yesterday. < http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm> All of this brings me to my question. What books do you recommend about Fidel and the Cuban Revolution in general? I see many available, but it seems more than not, they're just anti-Castro pablum. BTW, Louis, I have now found this page of yours < http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mypage.htm> which I plan to reference as I continue my journey left. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
