* From: Jim Devine On 5/17/06, Charles Brown wrote: > Reading this article itself what is striking is the proof that planned > obsolescence can be overcome, and the resourcefulness of the Cuban > revolution. ...
I don't know if it's the "resourcefulness of the Cuban revolution" as much as the resourcefulness of Cuban individuals, who fix up these cars. -- ^^^^^ CB; I doubt it. Individuals do very little alone in human society, which is highly social. Bourgeois media and conceptions like to portray all success in society as if there are billions of Robinson Crusoes , all doing their own little individual thing. All these resourceful individuals is what makes the world go 'round - NOT ! It is not isolated individuals whose resources - mental, soulful and physical - fix- up and maintain these old cars, but collectives, social groups and their resources, organized within the Cuban social revolution. It is more the resourcefulness of Cuban revolutionaries organized in collectives ( which is the Cuban revolution), not the resourcefulness of Cuban individuals.
