I don't hate scenery and I don't hate my culture from a personal perspective, I rather enjoy middle america food (its the only thing I can eat even). That shit is cool, but I don't take "pride" rather, interest. I'm just as likely to boo at nationalists from, I don't know, China, as i would America, but likewise, I would take as much appreciation in things that I found interesting in other cultures as I would "my" own. By incomprehensible I meant I literally cannot understand a word Springsteen says.
"Down in the shadow of penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A." What's incomprehensible about that? But anyway, there's really nothing to be ashamed of in terms of investigating the culture you've come from, or where you live. Just because we live in capitalist societies, doesn't make some of the beautiful scenery, or aspects of our history, or our culture and customs, any less valid. Just sayin'. I took a long time to realise that, I used to be very anti-culture too.
You asked me in a thread about libertarian socialism and that I referred to things as being liberal. I can't be bothered to find the thread. I'm really tired righ now but I'm just going to say this: about the freedom of the press, under a proletarian dictatorship I think it wouldn't be a right everyone had and reactionary newspapers would be forcibly stopped. My thinking on it is largely in agreement with lenin here (meaning I happen to agree with lenon. I'm not trying to appeal to authority I'm just saying id like to message you before I forget and I recognize any argument I make will sound incoherent, the basics of it are in this document): https://www.marxists.org/archive/len...921/aug/05.htm Feel free to challenge me on something if you'd like.
"You enver fail to bring a hoxha quote to the table" i wish i could thank that.
Ah. So just a way of ignoring what you day. For all his encyclopedic knowledge, he seems like he wants any excuse to show it off than use it.
Castro's a cool guy, in the sense that he's always had style, and his speeches were incredible, but that's about it. Don't really support the Cuban revolution, or Cuba's politics. Perhaps it's a model that has 'worked' for that Island in the sense of raising living standards, but it's not an exportable model and I wouldn't support its implementation. And, of course, Cuba been essentially a mixed economy since the early 1990s, and in the last handful of years pretty much a market economy, with the return of fully fledged private sector employment, and private property. But Ismail likes to label me an 'apologist' of Cuba, whatever that means.
Ismail's been saying things in a lot of thread about you and Castro. Whats the truth of the matter?
