On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > denouncing a government that has "For a number of years...been cracking down on the opposition, jailing journalists and closing down media outlets...that defy the [regime's] policy goals." And declaring, in a rhetorical question, "When you have total control over the press, what meaning does the word democratic have?"
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 This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
