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Raul Castro to retire.
All I can say is that it's good to see that Raul, like his brother, did not overstay his welcome. Does anyone know anything about Diaz-Canel?
Brospierre-Albanian baseball was played with a frozen ball of shit and tree branch
"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union."
Henry L. Stimson: U.S. Secretary of War
Take the word “fear” and the phrase “for what, it’s not going to change anything” out of your minds and take control of your future.
[I]Juan Jose Fernandez, Asturias
"I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see"
Wow! I thought he was gonna be in til death. It this will be really interesting to see cuba's future.
Mother Nature vs. Capitalism - Serj Tankian
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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Gee. I wonder which Castro will take power now. Gotta love socialism in one family.
Who do you guys think might be coming up? Parilla seems to be a big name.
Apenas um rapaz latino americano apoiado por mais de 50 mil manos
But is it relevant who will be a new leader? The question is will the life of Cubans will be easier due to that change?
I'm worried the new leader will make Cuba capitalist, without making the state more democratic. Then nothing positive will have been achieved and we will have to listen to more 'communism is dead rhetoric'.
Stalin got it wrong. A million deaths under socialism is an atrocity. A million deaths under capitalism is a statistic.
'Trotsky explained that a nationalised planned economy needs democracy as the human body needs oxygen.' Alan Woods in a summary of The Revolution Betrayed
Meh, I think the last decades have shown that there can be the so-called socialism of Weekend-At-Burnies revolutionary Cuba and capitalists still saying "communism is dead". They'll say that until the class has them in a guillotine... figurativly... probably.
A socialist movement with strong identification by and connections with working class struggle in Egypt, Greece, or Spain would do more for international working class consiousness than 5 existing Cubas IMO.
What? 'Make Cuba capitalist'???? It's never been anything else, since the overturning of feudal property relations.
I suggest Kim Jong Castro.
Maybe, when the cachet of the leaders of the 'revolution' of '59 is over, there will be a real examination of Cuba's history and perhaps more realisation that the last 60 years have been a different flavour of cpitalism rather than any kind of radical experiment.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
What about Miguel Diaz-Canel makes you think Cuba will become capitalist?
The way I see it, the "restoration" of capitalism in Cuba is only a matter of time (though it has never at any point in it's history been anything other than capitalist.) For a new layer of young Cubans, the only reality they remember living is one of continuous privations and sacrifices. I'm wondering how much longer this can sustain itself without major social explosions.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
Thank you all for showing your solidarity with a country that has fought and is still fighting every day hard for its independence, is able to uphold, against all odds, the highest living standard in the Caribbean for all of its people, and does an indispensable service for revolutionary and national independence movements all over Latin America.
I understand if you don't agree with the way things are going on Cuba, or even its whole form of government, but maybe, instead of joining in on the anti-communist crusade against Cuba, you could think about what you could do to actually help the small country on its way to socialism. And there, the two most important things are to support Cuba against foreign aggression, in whatever ways it may present itself, and to fight for socialism in your own country.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." - Karl Marx
"It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it." - V.I. Lenin
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You're welcome.
Did you read the article or is this an attempt at being cute? Seth Mcfarlane did a better job at being funny last night(and he wasn't) than your little DPRK joke/thing. IMO.
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Brospierre-Albanian baseball was played with a frozen ball of shit and tree branch
"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union."
Henry L. Stimson: U.S. Secretary of War
Take the word “fear” and the phrase “for what, it’s not going to change anything” out of your minds and take control of your future.
[I]Juan Jose Fernandez, Asturias
"I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see"
You're either being dishonest or idiotic. There are a number of people who it is suggested may take over, none of them are relatives of the current or former President.
You're inability to tell Cuba from North Korea isn't far removed from Glenn Beck's inability to tell communism from fascism.
Yes, because the idea of passing state power from one family member to another could never happen in a place like Cuba. How silly of me.
Given that it's long been clear (and theres never been any suggestion otherwise) that no future leaders will have the name Castro. . . yes, that is silly of you.
One case is not statistically significant.
Whether the person has the last name "Castro" or not is actually insignificant to my larger point, which is that people in such anti-socialist regimes are chosen not on the basis of any democratic decision-making, but on the basis of the personal preferences of the Great Leader and his inner circle. It's therefore not surprising that "trusted" family members are often chosen as replacements, as has happened in Cuba the sole time there has been a change in leadership, and as has happened in North Korea over the past half century. But it's not like the underlying point I am making suddenly evaporates if everything you say is true and Raul does chose a successor who isn't a Castro.
It's actually sad that I have to go into this much detail to explain something to you that socialists should instinctively know.
Raul is not "a member of the family". He is one of the starting guerilla team of Granma and their most advanced ideologicly member, the one that understood m-l the best. Hadnt be for that, he would never be the president of Cuba. The same way Fidel's kids were never supposed to.
So it's entirely coincidental that his last name is "Castro." Ok. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Enrique De La Osa / REUTERS
