[Marxism] An interesting view of the American electoral system

[Walter Lippmann]

Actually, the problem in Cuba is that while Fidel is
the leader of the government, he's also the leader
of the opposition. Some people find this confusing 
at times. 

Imagine, a goverment leader who's honest enough 
to say he doesn't have all the answers!

Here is a conclusion I’ve come to after many years: 
among all the errors we may have committed, the 
greatest of them all was that we believed that 
someone really knew something about socialism, 
or that someone actually knew how to build socialism. 

It seemed to be a sure fact, as well-known as the 
electrical system conceived by those who thought 
they were experts in electrical systems. Whenever 
they said: “That’s the formula”, we thought they knew. 
Just as if someone is a physician. You are not going 
to debate anemia, or intestinal problems, or any other 
condition with a physician; nobody argues with the 
physician. You can think that he is a good doctor 
or a bad one, you can follow his advice or not, 
but you won’t argue with him. 

Which of us would argue with a doctor, or a mathematician, 
or a historian, or an expert in literature or in any other 
subject? But we must be idiots if we think, for example, 
that economy is an exact and eternal science and that it 
existed since the days of Adam and Eve, and I offer my 
apologies to the thousands of economists in our country. 

All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes 
that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 
100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the 
one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. 
Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and 
I truly revere Marx, Engels and Lenin. 
http://www.walterlippmann.com/fc-11-17-2005.html 





=========================================
     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
=========================================