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In much more adverse conditions than Greece, Cuba's leadership was able to resist US demands for payment of expropriated properties for more than 50 years. Now, having forced Washington to the bargaining table, it has a strong hand. Many of the Miami vultures are dead, roadkill in the current context. And when Cuba puts the cost of the half-century blockade on the scales, do you really think it will end up paying anything to Uncle Sam? Richard -----Original Message----- From: Louis Proyect [mailto:l...@panix.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 11:12 AM To: Richard Fidler; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] Debt & Greece - Why Capitulate? Another Way Is Possible On 12/21/15 10:59 AM, Richard Fidler via Marxism wrote: > Eric Toussaint recounts the history of the debt issue and > the search for alternatives in the Greek left, going back to 2010 -- > including the various initiatives to conduct a public audit of the debt, the > record of SYRIZA and the successive retreats on the issue by the Tsipras > leadership, the disastrous decisions taken from the beginning by the SYRIZA > government in February 2015, and the reasons for the Tsipras capitulation in > mid-July. Toussaint does not seem to have any understanding of the relationship of forces. Cuba is now negotiating with the USA about compensating the vultures whose property was confiscated in 1960. If Cuba can be blackmailed in this fashion, isn't it a function of the power of capital rather than the mettle of its leadership? _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
