File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9710, message 242


From: detcom2-AT-sprynet.com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:39:27 -0700
Subject: 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
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