You do know that nobody here thinks Cuba or the Warsaw Pact countries are/were marvellous places to live, right?
--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From Hans Magnus Enzenberger, a German leftist
> essayist.""I kept
> meeting Communists in hotels for foreigners, who had
> no idea that the
> energy and water supply in the working quarters had
> broken down during
> the afternoon, that bread and milk were rationed,
> and that the
> population had to stand two hours in line for a
> slice of pizza;
> meanwhile the tourists in their hotel rooms were
> arguing about Lukács"
>
>
> Marx's Contribution
> Karl Marx never unwittingly suffered a tape recorder
> to be strategically emplaced in some intimate part
> of his aura.
> No one spied on him from across the street
> while he scribbled on endless sheets of paper at his
> ease.
> He could even afford the luxury of machinating
> heroically
> in his own good time
> against the prevailing system.
> Karl Marx
> never encountered the "obligatory retraction,"
> and he had no reason to suspect that his best friend
> might be in the pay of the police,
> nor, even less, was he ever forced to become an
> informer.
> He never heard of the queue which forms before the
> regular queue
> and gives one the right to be in the queue
> which waits to find at the head of the line that
> what was available
> were replacements for zippers (and: "They're all
> gone, comrade").
> I don't expect
> he was subject to a law that obliged him
> to cut off his hair
> or shave his "anti-hygienic" beard.
> His times did not require him to hide his
> manuscripts
> from Engels' eyes.
> (Then, too, the friendship between these two
> homologues
> never proved a "moral concern" for the State.)
> If ever he brought a woman to his lodgings,
> he never had to hide his papers under the mattress
> nor,
> for reasons of political expediency,
> was he forced to deliver a discourse
> (while caressing her)
> on the Tsar of Russia or the Austro-Hungarian
> Empire.
> Karl Marx
> could write what he would,
> come and go from the country,
> could dream, meditate, speak, scheme, work against
> the party or power in his time.
> Everything Karl Marx could do
> lies in the grave of prehistory.
> His contribution to contemporary problems has been
> immense.
> Reinaldo Arenas
>
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