On 2010-09-07, at 12:00 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Yes, I read an interview with Castro once (late seventies) where he was asked whether he foresaw a revo in the U.S.
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> He said no. He said in order to have a revo, you need "firmness of purpose...but in the U.S., you are told every ten minutes that you want something different [advertisements], so you do not have the proper mental and emotional discipline to carry out a revolution."
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> I thought he had a point.
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Can you offer a cite for the quote? I've never heard these words attributed to Castro before, nor anything from him suggesting that Americans were inherently incapable of making a revolution. Sounds to me like it might be as apocryphal as Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Lenin's comment about the capitalists selling the hangman's rope to their executioners.
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