File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1995/95-07-marxism/95-07-17.000, message 18


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

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