From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 05:01:31 EDT
"Fred B. Moseley" wrote: > > > Riccardo, do you want the Cubans to make their political system more > democratic at the national level NOW, under the current circumstances, > when everybody knows that a more open democratic system would be exploited > to the hilt by the US government and by Miami Cubans (a few hundred > millions of dollars goes a long way in Cuba)? Or do you want to voice > criticism now in order to improve the chances of democratic changes later? > It depends what you mean by democracy. If Riccardo means allowing free elections, then Fred is obviously right. If yone means the institution of a system of direct democracy with all executive bodies drawn by lot, then I think it is a least arguable, that such institutions would be as resistent to US intervention as the current form of state. > > If the latter, then there is not much difference between us, and I might > mostly agree with you. > > But if the former, then I disagree, for the reason stated. It is an > illusion and a recipe for disaster. > > It is my sense that what most Cubans want NOW is: (1) the US off their > backs, and (2) a higher standard of living - usually with the belief that > (2) will follow from (1). Greater democracy at the national level is > something they also want, but that is not their main concern right now. > > Comradely, > Fred -- Paul Cockshott Dept Computing Science University of Glasgow 0141 330 3125
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