Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:21:29 -0400 From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings) Subject: M-G: Re: M-I: Castro: "We have no reason to create millionaires" (fwd) Lou Proyect is now even more desperately clutching at the most ridiculous straws. It is evident that he would swallow any bromide that would help him to continue to trip on the illusion of Castroite "socialist revolution": >"We have no reason to create millionaires, to create enormous >inequalities," Castro said. As Marxist-Leninists, he added, "we fight not >to create individual millionaires, but to make the citizenry as a whole >into millionaires." Oh yeah! That was really what socialism was all about, I forgot, silly me: "Making the citizenry as a whole into millionaires" - 'People's capitalism', they used to call this the bourgeois swindlers back in the fifties and sixties. Lenin remarked that the slogan of the speculators and corrupt officers of the Stolypin "reforms" went by the slogan: "Enrichesses vous" - which can be of course loosely translated as "let us all become millionaires". In the end, these policies did actually turn every citizen into a millionaire, except that even with a few million you could not get enough stamps for a postcard! Someone ought to tell Castro that all his problems can soon be over: The "classical solution" is called inflation, super-inflation, mega-inflation, and one of the greatest pioneers of this wonder-working policy was in fact the social-fascist Weimar revisionist regime in Germany! As for the "consolation" that Proyect finds in the fact that Castro's Cuba is proposing to stand still and mummify itself in its present condition in order to spare his apologists the blushes of having to face reality for another six months, he ought to remember Lenin's words: "In politics, as with everything in the life of society (and that includes economics A.O.) that which does not move forward, is hurled back". But then, Proyect is not a Leninist, but an inveterate believer in flying carpets and computer programs against "counter-revolutionary viruses". Proyect's is really a most pathetic case of a grown up clinging to the crumbling illusions of his political childhood now turning into premature doddering dotage. Any one for a whip-round to purchase the man a wheelchair? Or, maybe we should not rush things and instead we ought to restrain our generosity and altruistic impulses until Castro-socialism turns "all the citizenry of the world" into millionaires. Good luck to him! But do not hold your breath! Adolfo Olaechea --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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