Cuba - Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds

[maria.gilmore]

I must correct a big boo boo in the last paragraph of my post...I left out
the name of the interviewee, Francis Fukayama.
Of course, I realize that all you really intellectual people who read all
those books all the time knew this instantly by the name of the book.   But
in this radio interview both the host and the professor kept referring to
"socialism" and "liberal democracy" as if they were at opposite poles, and
even I know better than that.
But the bad part is, the great majority of Americans don't really know what
either of those things are, any more than they know what Cuba is really like
and why it's the way it is.   And could Michael Pugliese please tell me if
any of the texts he mentioned actually present a view of what life is really
like for the average Cuban?  It's so hard to get factual info in the US
about this.

----- Original Message -----
From: "maria.gilmore" <maria.gilmore at netzero.net>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Cuba - Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds


> > Lambasting Cuba for lack of media expression and elections is just butt
> > stupid. Is anybody so moronic as to think that, if Cuba had free
> elections,
> > the US would not buy them. Just plain idiotic.
>
> If the US bought them, they really wouldn't be "free elections", would
they?
>
> I agree that would happen, but lots of my fellow Americans don't.   So to
> them Castro is an evil dictator who just likes being in charge (and the
part
> about just liking to be the boss may very well be true); but I don't think
> the vast majority of my fellow Americans are moronic.
> Ignorant, maybe willfully so sometimes, but not idiots.
>
> But still, the fact remains that Cuba is a society in many respects on
> lockdown (not entirely by it's own choice...see the embargo) which is
> totally incompatible with the practice of democracy.  You can look at US
> society and say the same thing!
>
> I was listening to an interview with  yesterday, and the statement was
made
> that in "The End Of History" he discussed the battle between socialism and
> "liberal democracy".  I thought the battle was between socialism and
> capitalism, as they are both economic systems.
>
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