FW: Debate in Cuba
 
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:56:39 -0500 (CDT)

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From: Dave [mailto:dm.silver@verizon.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:54 PM
To: Dave Silver
Subject: Debate in Cuba

 

RAUL LAUNCHES CRITICAL DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF  SOCIALIST CUBA WHILE THE
PSEUDO-LEFT AND LIBERALS  SEEK A NEW MODEL 

 

          

            SEPTEMBER  20, 2007
Dave Silver

 

So Marc Frank via Reuters tells us that Fidel thinks wages are too low as
well as some other problems.  So it must mean that Cuba is headed for
disintegration and recession.   There's no mention of the fact that in large
measure Cuba has left the harsh "special period" in the past and by 1996
showed 6% economic growth.   To Rafael Hernandez, editor of Termas (issues)
is interpreted by the people (in Frank's translation) that Raul is calling
for "deep structural changes in the Model" 

So the socialist model needs to be changed to what?  Maybe we can use the
perfect oxymoron, a favorite of social democratic, neo-marxist and new Left
forums called market socialism or what Karl would call an antagonistic
contradiction.  And here comes a former Cuban Intelligence officer who
defected to gusano territory, urging Cuba to "reform" or perish. And to
"rethink soicialism." 

And we can't leave out both liberal and conservative think tanks at Stanford
or the Heritage Foundation  All of whom analyze new openings for a
Democratic Society which can produce glasnost and perestroika and "new
thinking" and destabilization eventually leading to a "smooth post Castro
transition" meaning a post socialist Cuba.

We must follow the example of Cuba's internationalism and strengthen our
Solidarity with Havana and intensify efforts to Free the Cuban Five.
Socialist Cuba is the Hope of the Planet. There's One Humanity and One
Struggle at home and abroad.