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In the early years of AIDS, persons with that condition were confined in such institutions. In the Sixties and Seventies, poliotical dissidents were generally sent to the UMAP forced labour units. MikeG. El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! ________________________________ From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> To: Mr. Goodman <godisamethod...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Farber replies to Links review of his Cuba book ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== On 7/2/12 6:00 PM, glparrama...@greenleft.org.au wrote: > > Sam Farber replies to Chris Slee's critical review of his latest book. > Join the discussion at http://links.org.au/node/2934 > > Slee's review can be found at http://links.org.au/node/2911 > I'll bet anybody that Farber won't respond to my comment: Nice to see Farber engage with his critics on the Internet. This is something of a first. I see that he writes: "It is quite clear that by the early to mid-sixties the Cuban leaders had succeeded in establishing a version of the system that ruled in the USSR with a one-party state bureaucracy controlling all of the social, political and economic life of the country without independent trade unions, the right to strike or civil and political liberties." We all know that the USSR used to confine dissidents in psychiatric hospitals, but did Cuba? Farber told an interviewer in New Politics (http://nova.wpunj.edu/newpolitics/issue35/farber35.htm): NP: In the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviets used psychiatric hospitals as a means of clamping down on dissent. SF: There was that in Cuba, too, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. I have researched this question thoroughly and found no evidence of this. Maybe Farber can back up his claims with the facts. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/godisamethodist%40yahoo.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
