Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 12:49:40 EDT
From: greeman-AT-uhavax.hartford.edu
Subject: Re: state cpitalism


Dear Louis,
The reason why is simple: the COld war served the interests of the military
bureaucratic elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain, while both were
fundamentally opposed to worker revolution from below, which is the essence
of marxism. So of course they entered into a tacit conspiracy to identify
totalitariajn communism (state-Capitalism) with its opposite, marxism, a
theory of libaration based on worker self-activity.
	As far as Cuba goes, when Castro offed Cienfugos and the other
July 26ers back around 1961 and turned the government over to Blas Roca
and the CP (which had sat out the revolution) he entered on the path to
state-apitalism. however, since Castro failed to read Castro on monoculture
he stuck to one-crop sugar economy (supported by US leftists who went down
to cut 10,000,000 tons instead of criticising such nonsense). Result: Cuba
is still a colony, now in search of an imperialist to depend on. So perhaps
the answer to your question is Castro never quite made it to state-captialism.
	P.S. My name is Richard. Do I detect a hint of scorn in addressing
me as "professor"?


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