[lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness

[123hop at comcast.net]

No, it was a long interview either in Rolling Stone or in one of the skin flicks. Penthouse, Playboy, something like that. I read it with my own two eyes. And I'd say it was somewhere around 1976. 

I remember it quite vividly because his answer surprised me. 

Joanna 

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From: "Marv Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca> 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:46:22 PM 
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness 

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. 
> 
> 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." 
> 
> 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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