Charles wrote:
> However, I wouldn't say "violence" is not like a ball that just rolls.
I come from a different place. As witness today: the abuses in the prison, the beheading, what next? As I wrote in a post earlier today: violence calls forth violence in unenlightened minds (false consciousness).
> The partisans of the working class should not oppose the establishment of a socialist state because it will make mistakes and even commit crimes against socialist or working class interests and principles ( repression that is not
of counterrevolution, in short).
Mistakes are allowable, but what are the parameters of acceptable mistakes? How long can the mistakes continue to be made? As far as I know queers still cannot join the Communist Party in Cuba.
Commit crimes against "working class interests?" On what grounds are these crimes justified? What "working class interests" justified the persecution of queers?
Also check out this site about sodomy laws:
http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/cuba/cuba.htm
Also: Amnesty International
Cubra Libre? NOT. LOL.
> I do think it is well placed in the case of Cuba. Despite errors, Cuba is a shining example of a successful revolution.
Here I disagree. The treatment of queers was a shining example of human depravity.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister