[lbo-talk] Re: Cuba petition

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 14 10:26:20 PDT 2003


Bradford DeLong wrote:


>In what sense is Castro's, or Saddam's, or Aideed's, or Milosevic's,
>or Coard's government "revolutionary"? By the time *that's* your
>definition of human progress, the abyss has looked you over quite
>thoroughly...

I wouldn't give the regimes you list following Castro's the time of day, but there's much to admire in Cuba - First World-level social indicators, to start with, enough to earn James Wolfensohn's praise. And I don't like to see dissidents thrown in jail, but much of that sort of repression was ultimately manufactured in Washington, not Havana. Or do you think the U.S. was right to spend the last 40+ years trying to kill Castro?

Doug



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