[lbo-talk] "Critical Support" (Re: Fidel)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 12/23/06, andie nachgeborenen
> The upshot is that the Cuban Revolution deserves what
> Trotskyists called out "critical defense" -- defense
> for its accomplishments, criticism for its failings
> and abuses, including most of its policies towards
> GLBTs. Brian's flat out condemnation is insufficiently
> nuanced, even if Cuba has been a disappointment on
> this dimension.

One thing that I have been saying for some time is that, at this point
in history, no government in the world, even a socialist government,
is unlikely to _really_ care about whatever defense or friendly
criticism or even flat-out condemnation that comes from leftists in
the USA, for there is no social force behind it that makes it matter
politically.

I bet they care more far about what the Russian government, the
Chinese government, etc. have to say than what American leftists have
to say.
-- 
Yoshie
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