la revolution, where they know what that word means...

[Mark Jones]

Jamie Owen Daniel wrote:
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> 
> 2) the few computers they can afford are not p.c.'s as we know them, i.e.
> PERSONAL computers--that's a luxury only some of us in the bourgie North
> can afford.  Rather, they are collectively used--a.k.a. shared--and
> therefore no one is able to surf the net, or exchange chit-chat with bored
> consumers of software and tofu in the U.S.  For example, I regularly
> communicate via e-mail with a colleague at the university of Havana.
> These messages arrive at the ONE terminal shared by the entire faculty and
> staff of the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Social Science. She
> responds to me within a day or two, usually, but it's clear there is
> always a line of people waiting to use the terminals, which are often down
> because of
> 
> 3) the fact that there are often power outages in Havana and the rest of
> the island because the U.S. embargo 

Yes, indeed. We had someone from the same Havana faculty subscribe to
Leninist-International and they had to unsub because the volume of mail
was so great: and frankly I felt like closing the list and reopening it
on a different basis, because I didn't want to lose that link; it was a
real defeat for us, a real victory for the embargo.

Mark