COMMENTARY
END THE U.S. BLOCKADE! U. S. OUT OF GUANTANAMO!
Yes, I know. This is a day when we should be happy that there is a ceasefire in Lebanon and the civilian population of South Lebanon can get a reprieve from what apparently was going to be a total blitzkrieg by the Israeli war machine. However, this writer has been troubled by the doings of the Bush Administration and its underlings, official and unofficial, in Miami and elsewhere among the exiles. For years, this Administration and the Congress, generally, has sought to further isolate Cuba in the hopes that it would cry- “Uncle!” There is a governmental organization in place- The Assistance to Cuba Foundation- that is set up exclusively to bring American-style democracy (remember Iraq, please) to the island. Expect that operation to gear up for trouble.
With the announcement of Fidel Castro’s illness and the subsequent turning of power over to his brother Raul the exiles are dancing in the streets. What knows what will happen over the coming period. But the American imperialists and their Cuban allies are getting ready in order to implement their preferred outcome. Whatever differences militant leftists have with the course of the Cuban revolution when the deal goes down we must stand in defense of that revolution. When you think of the Cuban exiles and the American government remember one word. Batista. Forget all the noise about democracy and all those nice things. That is important for us. It is most definitely not important to this government or to those old time Cuban exiles who want to revert Cuba back to a 1950’s scenario. Now that would really be retro. As always these days- be ready!
END THE U.S. BLOCKADE! U. S. OUT OF GUANTANAMO!
Yes, I know. This is a day when we should be happy that there is a ceasefire in Lebanon and the civilian population of South Lebanon can get a reprieve from what apparently was going to be a total blitzkrieg by the Israeli war machine. However, this writer has been troubled by the doings of the Bush Administration and its underlings, official and unofficial, in Miami and elsewhere among the exiles. For years, this Administration and the Congress, generally, has sought to further isolate Cuba in the hopes that it would cry- “Uncle!” There is a governmental organization in place- The Assistance to Cuba Foundation- that is set up exclusively to bring American-style democracy (remember Iraq, please) to the island. Expect that operation to gear up for trouble.
With the announcement of Fidel Castro’s illness and the subsequent turning of power over to his brother Raul the exiles are dancing in the streets. What knows what will happen over the coming period. But the American imperialists and their Cuban allies are getting ready in order to implement their preferred outcome. Whatever differences militant leftists have with the course of the Cuban revolution when the deal goes down we must stand in defense of that revolution. When you think of the Cuban exiles and the American government remember one word. Batista. Forget all the noise about democracy and all those nice things. That is important for us. It is most definitely not important to this government or to those old time Cuban exiles who want to revert Cuba back to a 1950’s scenario. Now that would really be retro. As always these days- be ready!
I think your post is accurate.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the lack of democracy, will bring down the government.
Raul Castro is interested in the China model of industrial development.
Nevertheless we have to fight the American capitalists on this one. The Bush idea for democracy in Cuba, echoed by the exiles in Miami and elsewhere, is to bring back the old days. A good current example of the bourgeois norms for “bringing democracy” is Iraq. Nothing more needs to be said. We fight for a concept, always sorely lacking in Cuba under Fidel, is workers’ democracy. The fight at the base of Cuban society for something like happened in Russia in 1917- workers , farmers, and soldiers councils is the only real way to preserve the gains of the revolution.
ReplyDeleteAs for whatever model of development Raul might be interested in the Chinese model is very, very far from a socialist model. Here is the problem in a nutshell. These Stalinist bureaucrats, both Chinese and Cuban, know only one of two ways to go with the economy. Either a bureaucratic central planning apparatus which works at the whim of the controlling bureaucrats or so-called “market socialism” which is basically a prescription for economic chaos for working people and peasants- witness China today. The only way out is to combine the above-mentioned workers’ democracy and a centralized planning apparatus. But, most importantly, especially in a small island economy like Cuba’s is a fight for revolution in the heartland. If socialism in country could not work in the Soviet Union and is on the skids in China how the hell is socialism on one island suppose to succeed. More later.