[lbo-talk] Cuba petition

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Apr 14 12:32:27 PDT 2003


I've been pondering. It is a tough query. Fuck US Imperialism and neo- Stalinism. But, that sounds so metaphysical, idealist. Even if it is the ground of my pov. Michael Pugliese, Can the Third Camp Get To Third Base W/O Being A Tool of Empire and Like Shactman Approvig The Bay Of Pigs Invasion And Can Some Sectors Of The Radical Left Wean themselves From the More Essentialist, Uncritical Apologias For Autocratic, But Progressive (Health Indicators, Etc.) Anti-Imperialist States That Have Persevered Despite Massive Destabilization Attempts???

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:14:46 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> Which is why denouncing the Cuba repression is always timely, maybe more
>> so
>> now.
>
> So you'd endorse a Bush admin humanitarian intervention in Cuba? How far
> would you go? Covert action? Full-blown invasion?
>
> Several times now I've asked all you folks how you'd defend any kind of
> progressive regime against U.S. hostility, and I've yet to hear an
> approximation of an answer. I'm guessing it's because you don't have one,
> but I won't give up hope yet.
>
> Doug
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-- Michael Pugliese

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