> Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote:
>
> Cuba seems to buy food from the US. How far Cuba depends on US for its
> food supply?
>
> Ulhas
> Comment : Cuba wouldn't mind buy food from the US if the US ruling
> class would allow such sales.In any event, can you stop your
> tendentious campaign of disinformation about Cuba's supposed food
> problems and malnutrition..Otherwise show proof , evidence of it,
> apart from posting mainstream neo-lib-press impressionistic articles.
> Cuba has solved her post-soviet food/oil problems successfully.People
> keep concentrating on agri business but nobody mentions the very
> successful fishing industry in Cuba and the very rich protein diet it
> provides to the population.
>
> It is India who sadly continues to suffer from severe malnutrition and
> even outright famine amidst her new gizmo industry and $1 an hour
> labor in call centers.
That Cuba has been able to survive at all with the U.S. boycott, as well as the distorted economy left behind by imperialism, is something of a miracle. It is also strong evidence for Patrick Bond's argument that at least a partial delinking from the world economy, at almost any cost, is the prerequisite for building a decent society. It would be infinitely better, _of course_, if there was a world economy designed for real cooperation rather than for exploitation, but the criticisms of Bond's arguments are as naively vicious as the arguments that the U.S. should stay in Iraq until it has "repaired" the damage it has done. Imperialism will _never_ repair the damage it has done. It's fine to be prosperous in any nation, but it's far better to be Cuba than to be among the lower 25%-50% of such nations as India and China.
Have you read Ellen Meiksins Wood's _Empire of Capital_?
Carrol