I think there could've been an interesting point on these themes:
* Decentralization. So Raul is the only one who can deal with
"insane" milk supply routes? He's one of the few who can fathom
the deep intricacies of cow juice logistics? Really?
* Leftists sometimes take on the same bias as the right, where
they hyperfocus on authority figures. Just with the loyalties
going in the other direction. I'd like to hear interesting
critique about our neighbors to the south (Venezuela, Cuba) from
someone who feels empowered enough to treat these leaders as
peers, and not just transmit underlying assumptions.
There exist people in those nations with every bit as much
intelligence as Chavez or Castro. What are they up to, or
hindered from doing? What do they think about how their society
should be better shaped?
* When I read through Raul's missive, I tried to read him as if he
were a top corporate manager. Surprisingly, it wasn't really
absurd. He was more direct than usual about emphasizing top-down
"discipline," though his desire to raise peoples' wages was
unusual (not unheard of though).
But hey, pro wrestling between self-identified "anarchists" and "statists" isn't bad either. ;)
Tayssir