Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 10:04:11 -0500 From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood) Subject: Re: TimW and democracy in Cuba I don't like regimes that jail poets and homosexuals, but I wonder how the anti-Castro Marxists would conduct a revolution in a place like Cuba under constant pressure from the U.S. And I don't much like secretive, centralized organizations, either, but how would our RD's have done things differently in Russia in 1917? In "What Is To Be Done," Lenin quite explicitly drew a distinction betwen the SD party in Russia and that in Germany; the latter could operate democratically because it operated in a far more open society than that of the Czars. I see lots of critique - Castro bad, CPSU bad - but precious little in the way of a positive program. Doug -- Doug Henwood [dhenwood-AT-panix.com] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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