[lbo-talk] Transition to capitalism in Cuba

[Julio Huato]

I'll just add to my previous post that Fidel is overtly approving of
the *process*, which cannot be construed as approving of the decisions
that will be made.  He just wrote in his latest "Reflections" that he
has been watching intently the deliberations of the delegates in
various commissions.  Referring to the youth and the educational level
of the delegates, and contrasting that with the old generation of
Cuban communists, he wrote:

"I did not care much what they said, as the way they said it. They
were so well prepared and their vocabulary was so rich, which I could
hardly understand them. They discussed every word, and even the
presence or absence of a comma in a paragraph discussed.

...

"The new generation is called to rectify and change without hesitation
all that must be corrected and changed, and continue to demonstrate
that socialism is also the art of the impossible: to construct and
carry out the revolution of the humble, the humble and for the poor,
and defend it for half a century of the most formidable power that
ever existed."

I believe that when U.S. revolutionaries get to turn things around in
even the tiniest community or town in the country, when just a little
bit of practical experience in building socialism accumulates here
(and that will happen!), then we'll have plenty moral authority to
demand that the Cubans pay some attention to us and perhaps even learn
from us how to build their socialism.