tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561667693103445737.post4865222328347657999..comments2024-01-24T03:37:07.726-08:00Comments on Howie's Corner: The human cost of Castro's "flaws"Howard Fullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302098153562222648noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7561667693103445737.post-29174760931961187512016-11-28T17:15:41.381-08:002016-11-28T17:15:41.381-08:00That Newsnight spat over Cuba between Peter Hitche...That <i>Newsnight</i> spat over Cuba between Peter Hitchens and Tariq Ali made perfect sense if you knew that one was a veteran of the International Socialists while the other was a veteran of the International Marxist Group. Those factions' differing Trotskyist analyses of the Soviet Union of the Brezhnev years were being applied to Cuba before our very eyes, but in highly exaggerated form.<br /><br />Thus, to Hitchens, the state capitalist entity had no achievements whatever. While to Ali, the degenerated or deformed workers' state was degenerated or deformed no more, with no human rights abuses at all. It was an astonishing thing to have witnessed on the BBC in 2016.<br /><br />I am told that, back in the day, there were <i>Romeo y Julieta</i> romances between the IS and the IMG at many a university. But you crossed the line if you took up with member of the Communist Party.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.com