[lbo-talk] Re: Fidel

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 12/31/06, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
> > Do you
> > call that fawning just because we said he did good
> > things too and was probably preferable (as are his
> > chosen successors) to his likely US-selected
> > replacements, given that you yourself admit that the
> > anarchist utopia is not in Cuba's immediate future?
>
> The International Socialists' article on Emma Goldman
> might have some relavance to the discussion of
> issues in this thread.  See:
> http://www.isreview.org/issues/34/emmagoldman.shtml

That article names Berkman as the would-be assassin who Goldman
covered up for. Berkman explained why anarchism doesn't mean violence
or disorder in his most famous work, _ABC of Anarchism_:

"I mean to speak to you honestly and frankly, and you can take my word
for it, because it happens that I am just one of those Anarchists who
are pointed out as men of violence and destruction. I ought to know,
and I have nothing to hide."
<http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_19.html>

Don't Castro and Chavez often put on the soldier's uniform? These
"strongmen," as the media calls them?

Berkman asks, "When a citizen puts on a soldier's uniform, he may have
to throw bombs and use violence. Will you say, then, that citizenship
stands for bombs and violence?"

Didn't Che write an influential manual on guerilla warfare? Don't many
in the US working class put on the soldier's uniform and fight abroad?

Tayssir