[lbo-talk] Limits on the Duration of Liberated Zones

[Eric Beck]

> Such Zones cannot be maintained indefinitely. Both Cuba and the USSR had
> pretty good runs of it, and their example encouraged resistance to capital
> around the world. But it is the most naïve (retroactive) Voluntarism to
harp
> on their non-socialist features or to whine that their leadership were/are
> "sell-outs" etc.

When did socialists get to be so sensitive? So a long-dead social formation
is getting critiqued. Who cares? I'd suggest that if you're more concerned
with defending and honoring it instead of analyzing and figuring out what
went wrong, your priorities are wrong. That is, if the SU and Cuba are
going to inform today's left, it will be as an object of criticism, not
heroism.