> What does it mean for a Cuban to 'be free'?
Mark, you obviously don't believe that the Cuban working-class is free from the toils and travails of the world-market. Nor do I. Cuba is an embattled garrison, right? The alternative to Castro would be a Miami-born Pinochet, right? But Cuba is still largely a sugar-dependent Third World periphery of the world economy, incapable of producing its own laptop computers or telecommunications equipment, right? So why are you hounding Rakesh for pointing out that Cuba wasn't lucky enough to be the next Finland? More to the point, what's *your* program for helping to turn Cuba into the next Finland, or the socialist equivalent thereof? It's called playing the loyal opposition, and the global Left needs more of it.
Incidentally, hasn't the whole Wall Street swoon been just delicious? I issued my first-ever "sell" recommendation on my Website earlier this month, and am overjoyed to see life imitating art. Now I know what Abby Cohen felt like in 1996-97. It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a Goldman Sachs partner! (*Splat*). Whoops, another parachute which should've been denominated in euros.
-- Dennis