File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-03.020, message 29


Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:39:54 -0600
From: sestrada-AT-fismat1.fcfm.buap.mx (Sendic Estrada Jimenez)
Subject: Re: M-I: Reply to Mick Armstrong


Mick:

	Do you really know what was going on in Czecoslovakia in 1968? The Soviet invasion into Czecoslovakia was necessary as to eliminate the beearucratic assault to power, which is precisely what happend in the Soviet Union in 1991. And Castro also put a distance with the Soviet Union when Gorbachev began with his programme of the Perestroika.

	Of the economic dependence with the Comecon, it was necessary for Cuba, standing a choking blockade by the US, to find a solution to the economic problems. It had no other option than to establish economic ties of that magnitude with the Comecon.

	And with respect to the democracy you mention, in Cuba, we know that approximately 80% of the population on the isle is with the Revolution. Now, if you are speaking of the burgeois democracy, it's clear that the proletarian dictatorship can make no concesion to the counter-revolutionary groups, like Alpha-66, that claim and insist on the democratic "apperture" of the isle.


							Jose Soto


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