Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Louis Proyect wrote:
>>I find this politically illiterate. I wish Doug would at least make the
>>effort to read about Cuba, since nobody expects him to ever visit the place.
>
>Do you really think that workers in the U.S. or any other First 
>World country would join a movement that wanted to make their 
>countries more like Cuba? Or is organizing the First World working 
>class of no political interest?
>
>Doug

Socialism (of any kind) is not in the cards in rich nations like the 
USA, Japan, & Western Europe right now.  Otherwise, why would Lou, 
for instance, write a series of long posts on Ralph Nader???  Cuban 
socialism can only take place under conditions nearly identical to 
Cuba's, history doesn't repeat itself, so we can't think in terms of 
"models."

Yoshie