[lbo-talk] Fidel on dolphins & the Cuban model

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 12:45:42 PDT 2010


Matthias Wasser


>
> CB: I know something about it that I _did_ tell you. It will last much
> longer than the second phase socialism.
>

Okay, but... why? What leads you to this conclusion?

^^^^ CB: Well, of course, I don't "know", and socialism is not inevitable... but ultimately, to be a socialist is to have confidence in the fundamenatal rationality of humanity or at least the potential for rationality to prevail. So, I speculate that the next socialist/communist revolutionaries will learn from the errors, shortcomings, failures, traps-fallen-into of the predecessors. They will figure out, especially, how to avoid being annihilated by imperialism. That will be the main way in which they last longer.

I think the Bolivarians and Latin American allies

have already demonstrated learning from history, by seizing the high ground of democracy vis-a-vis the US and its clients in Latin America.

The old saw of "communist dictatorship" rings hollow in the US propaganda against Venezuela, et al. The Venezuelan Constitutional reform puts it on a higher level of bourgeois democratic republic than the US. This doesn 't assure no US attack, but it removes a fake basis from the last time.

Anyway, I hate to say it , but uhhh Yes We Can make more socialism , more democracy, whatever. The struggle continues; victory is certain and all that.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list