On 7/28/06, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Hmmn, but the point of the Landau article is that Cubans are very much
> depoliticized, too, though probably not as depoliticized as Americans.
...the Cuban leader is at least well-spoken and didn't get where he
is on his father's father's father's armament profits from WWI.
I love Fidel, but is it possible that Fidel is too smart for the Cuban
people's good?
One thing that formerly and actually existing socialist societies
never overcame is attachment to iconic leaders (except maybe the USSR
in the age of Andropov and Chernenko, but then that's a sign of
another problem, the problem of bureaucracy). The Cubans have managed
this problem a little better than many others, by making Che, rather
than Fidel, a bigger icon.
In this sense, socialism is less iconoclastic than Islam.
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Yoshie
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