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On 6/23/14 4:50 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote:
It is more the pity that this criticism, so valid for the decades of Putin's rule in Russia, has not been raised for the more than half-century that the Castros have maintained even more thorough total control over the Cuban press and media. During all of which time the SWP and similar groupuscules have been fulsome in their praise of "Cuban Democracy." Those who formulated, fostered, and perpetuated that political line, and to this day have not explicitly repudiated it, do indeed have a great deal to be repentant about. Shane Mage
Shane, I wonder when was the last time you wrote something more than a paragraph.
Don't you realize that writing a paragraph about Cuba is next to worthless? Especially given the thirst that many young people have for Marxist analysis? About 17 years ago I wrote an article on Cuba that appeared as a series of emails to the Marxism list that preceded this one. It is 8000 words. (http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm)
Back in 1960 when you were in the SWP I am sure that when you were debating Barnes, Camejo and Sheppard you didn't waste time writing a single paragraph for preconvention discussion, did you? Why would you then waste time here unless you are just interested in being a bandwidth-wasting jackass?
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