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Very few Cubans are permitted Internet access. In any case, communicating on-line witrh Cuba is extremely difficult, even with official institutions. Perhaps it would be more accurate to compare the Stasi with Cuba's DGI or DGSE, both of which operate largely in secrecy. Mike G. El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! ________________________________ From: Ken Hiebert <knhieb...@shaw.ca> To: Mr. Goodman <godisamethod...@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:36 AM Subject: [Marxism] Sam Farber and Cuba ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Relying on memory, I believe Sam Farber once compared the CDR's Committee's for the Defence of the Revolution) to the Stasi in East Germany. If i am right this was in Against the Current. This seemed to me to be quite wrong. The Stasi operated in secret. Its informants were not known to their neighbours. Whatever else on might say, the CDR's are not secretive organizations. i do not mean to suggest that they are organs of popular control over the government. In the one video I saw of a CDR meeting, it seemed to me an organization that would draw people together, either willingly or reluctantly, to hear the party line on the current situation. While i disagree with Sam Farber i am impressed by the audience that he seems to have in Cuba. I follow Havana Times and i saw this piece he wrote on Hal Draper. I don't know how many Cubans follow this website. It is very critical of the Cuban government and the Cuban Communist Party. While it is hosted outside the country (in Nicaragua i think), Cubans are participating in it. Evidently the Cuban government is tolerating this activity. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=66311 ken h ________________________________________________ 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
