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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:57:51 -0400
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- From: "MARIO S. DE PILLIS" <AHAB000@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Anarchism
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- >I wouldn't think that any right-thinking cuban would wanbt to come to this
- >land of discrimination and racial hatred. After all, we are the pits.
-
- >Imagine having to take your pay home in an envelope, and then having to
- >pay it back to the government in nasty old taxes. Who wants taxes? Why
- >not stay in the workers' paradise and enjoy the good life?
-
- >Lenny
-
- I don't mind sarcasm as a rhetorical device, but it is not always
- precise. (Nor am I, nor e-mail). If Lenny means that the Cubans fled to
- the US because they loved its freedom, I find some complications in that.
- Maybe it's a good base to regain their old privileges as the dominant,
- mostly white, class.
- I don't want to be understood as defending Castro. But from what I've
- read about the suffering and corruption and torture under Batista, Castro
- was a breath of fresh air. If he had a rational economic policy, if he had
- been able to get free of the Soviets, if he did not have to cope with the
- economic blockade of the world's greatest economic superpower, if, if,
- if---well he might have had some success. But only in the short run.
- Cuba might gain prosperity as the 51st state and as a restored gambling
- mecca. I guess as historians (I am not a Latin Americanist) we might best
- look at him as yet another example of failed *caudillismo*.
- Just my thought, folks. I don't have a pipeline to truth in foreign
- policy. --Mario S. De Pillis
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