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You do realize this is a Buddhist concept, right? On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Marce Cameron <marcecame...@gmail.com> wrote: > From new Cuba blog "Cuba's Socialist Renewal" > http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com > To sign up as a follower or receive email updates click link above > > In my last post I commented on the illusion, widespread in Cuba today, > that China is building socialism. In this noteworthy commentary, > Ricardo Ronquillo Bello looks not to China for inspiration but to one > of China's neighbours, the little-known kingdom of Bhutan, where they > strive for "Gross National Happiness" rather than GDP growth. > > He warns against those inside Cuba who peddle the snake-oil of > neoliberal capitalism in a bottle labelled "socialism" — hinting that, > unsurprisingly, such neoliberal views are held by at least some in the > PCC, most likely administrators with a pro-capitalist outlook who > calculate that they might become millionaires if capitalism were ever > restored in Cuba. Of course, such elements cannot openly advocate > capitalist restoration. And they are up against a formidable obstacle: > a mass revolutionary socialist party led by the historic leadership of > the 1959 revolution with some 800,000 members, firm roots in the > working class, a heroic tradition of internationalism and, counting > the PCC's predecessors, five decades of hard-won struggle experience. > As Carlos Alzugaray Treto pointed out in "Cuba: Continuity and > political change": > > Despite the fact that the PCC leadership has committed errors that > have been recognised and/or rectified, and that methods and styles of > work bearing the imprint of their origins in the Soviet political > model still persist — such as the excess of centralism, for example — > in reality the Cuban leadership has been concerned with two central > aspects: the vanguard character of its militants that must be the > first in every political social initiative, and the struggle against > manifestations of corruption in its ranks. The honesty, sensitivity > and the spirit of sacrifice championed by Che Guevara have been, in > general, paradigms of Cuban communist conduct and not the privileges > and perks of the nomenclatura, as happened under actually existing > socialism [e.g. Soviet bureaucratic "socialism"]. > > Link to translation: > http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/01/translation-sustainable-happiness.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
