Comments on: The Dupes of Socialism

By: Tomole

Tomole — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:17:51 +0000

Perhaps it was the realization that Cuban socialism cannot exist without the Soviets propping it up

By: Horst Muhlmann

Horst Muhlmann — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:11:44 +0000

Who is going to play Daisy Dupe?

By: Shay

Shay — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:19:02 +0000

Yeah, this can be written off as something said in a mental haze. Reminds me of an R.D. Laing passage about telling delusion from truth:

One does not have to have any experience to believe it is true or false. If one believes it to be false, from the outside, one cannot tell whether the experience, if ever one enters it, might not convert one to a belief in it. This might demand a transformation of one's whole Weltanschauung. There is no way of knowing whether such a change might not be a fall into delusion. The initiate cannot know for certain that he knows for certain. The non-initiate cannot know for certain that the initiate is deluded.

By: HL

HL — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:44:40 +0000

Perhaps, but Goldberg did note that some “loosening” is taking place, such as implementation of some sort of property rights. Property rights is pretty much the place to start if you want to de-socialize…Who knows, maybe we’ll see an LvMI event in Cuba in our lifetimes…

By: Franklin

Franklin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:35:22 +0000

I’m with newson on this.
Mumbo-jumbo of a faded, jaded brain.
If he were re-apparelled in his 45-year old body, he’d do it all over again.
With even more relish.

By: Bobby Brager

Bobby Brager — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:26:04 +0000

Why, of all people, did Fidel share this confession with Jeffrey Goldberg?

By: newson

newson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:20:30 +0000

seemed more a lapsus than anything else.

By: J. Murray

J. Murray — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:08:58 +0000

People tend to ask for forgiveness for past transgressions when they see the end of the road. This is Fidel’s light at the end of the tunnel moment. It takes the threat of final death to see the error of his ways.

By: HL

HL — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:51:19 +0000

Meanwhile, Fidel informs a journalist that socialism just doesn't work. What gave him that idea? Perhaps the intelligent dolphins.

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:18:22 +0000

Sorry, just wanted to say I liked the picture for this entry. The man's hand is partially covering the E, so the word hope turns into hop, as in, "jump!".

By: Walt D.

Walt D. — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:26 +0000

“The Dupes of Socialism” – this sounds like a good title for a new TV show!

By: HL

HL — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:30:32 +0000

Reminds me of the dupes I grew up with in NYC. Even as the consequences of failed policies literally destroyed neighborhoods, families and schools, all the dupenvolk could do was clamor for more of the same failed policies. A few, for sure, did finally see a touch of light as our protagonist here did. A very few. Sad. All the more incentive for LvMI to carry on the good work.