Anyhow, the original point is that Haiti, which has been fully immersed in our beloved "market" system, is hell on Earth.
Markets make good servants but poor masters...
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> On Behalf Of Michael Pugliese
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 4:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Questions for Pugliese & Dolgoff on the
> CubanEconomy
>
> I'm back to wage labor alas so won't have the leasure to assemble a
> bunch of stats that have been asked for, at least weeknights. And, this
> has been a thread many a time here so do this, go to
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/ type in Cuba and read
> away. In the meantime a bunch of resources, mostly from the Left, on Cuba
> that are in most public libraries.
> Cuban political economy : controversies in Cubanology / edited by Andrew
> Zimbalist. - Boulder : Westwiew press, 1988. - XIV, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
> Frank T. Fitzgerald. ... The Cuban Revolution in Crisis: From Managing
> Socialism to Managing Survival (Monthly Review Press, 1994).
> Well, as usual, I find I'[ve typed my cites before so...
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2002/2002-July/017049.html
> I have more to say on this thread but, am real hungry so right now
> the sources I've read, mostly by Trotskyists and libertarian
> communists critical of Castroism.
> Maurice Halperin, OSS veteran along w/other lefties like Marcuse,
> Sweezy and H.Stuart Hughes (see the Barry Katz study of Marcuse...or,
> heh, find a copy of PLP newspaper from the late 60's with the
> headline, "Marcuse, Cop? Or Cop Out?"), victim of McCarthyism, was an
> advisor to the Cuban govt' in the 60's. Has three vols. from UC Press
> on Castroism, as well as a more personal, autobiographical acct. from
> U. of New Mexico Press if memory serves. (The Rise and Fall of Fidel
> Castro,
> 2 or 3 volumes from U.C. Press. The more recent vol. , "Return To Havana
> :
> The Decline Of Cuban Society Under Castro Nashville : Vanderbilt
> University
> Press, 1994.)
> K.S. Karol, "Guerillas In Power, " Hill & Wang Press, circa '70 or
> so. Karol is a Polish journalist, grew up under Nazi occupation,
> writes for French left press.
> "Revolution In Peril, " by Jeanette Habel, Verso Books, circa '91
> or so. French Trotskyist. Includes material on the Ochoa Purge Trial.
> General Ochoa was a hero of the Cuban internatyionalist intervention
> in Angola vs. Apartheid SA. Railroaded by Fidel on phony drug charges.
> Executed in '86 or so. Read the excellent acct. on the net from the
> NYRB by Julia Preston, or the chapter in Andres Oppenheimer, "Castro's
> Final Hour, " Simon & Schuster Press.
> New Politics articles on the net by Cuban born marxist, Sam Farber.
> Also see the special issue of Revolutionary History on Cuban
> Trotskyism. And Workers Liberty website.
> ( http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue19/farber19.htm
> Cuba: The One-Party State Continues also see an interview w/ Farber in a
> recent issue of the International Socialist Review,
> http://www.isreview.org/issues/36/farber_ext.shtml )
> "The New Cuba, " edited by Ronald Radosh, when he was still a
> leftist. From articles in Liberation, the anarcho-pacifist magazine.
> Learn all about socialist vs. capitalist lobotomies! After Radosh came
> back from a Cuban tour in '73 or so, David McReynolds hosted his slide
> show.
> "Cuba: Is It Socialist?", by Rene Dumont.
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
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