Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 11 15:45:45 PDT 2002


michael pugliese wrote:


> My suggestions, Doug and y'all about how to consolidate and
>deepen the social gains of the Cuban Revolution?

The question was how do you sustain the revolution in the face of attacks, overt and covert, from the U.S. I don't think you answered that until:


> The above, well, it's naive and utopian. I think once Fidel
>is gone there will be a bloody capitalist restoration. Otto Reich
>will choose the next Maximum Leader, betcha it's the son of Jorge
>mas Canosa ;-(

...when you pretty much concede that without some kind of authoritarian structure, you can't. I'm not at all happy with that answer, but it seems inescapable.

Doug



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