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Before this tedious back and forth goes on forever, I want to point out that
Carrol Cox had the best post on Cuba over on the LBO-Talk list. I reproduce it
here because it makes the necessary points succintly:
Cuba was a liberated zone; it still has _some_ independence of international
capital. Lenin knew that building socialism outside the core of capitalism was
a pipe dream -- he also knew one had to try.
There's no counter-revolution, there is merely an attempt to keep Cuba as
decent as possible.
Calling USSR, China, Cuba "Socialist" societies is sheer dogmatism. The next
step is to 'criticize' them for not conforming to some abstract blueprint.
Long Live the Cuban Revolution -- but don't pretend it was or ever could have
been socialism.
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