[Marxism] [CubaNews] JR: Rosa Miriam Elizalde - On Trees and Geography

[Shane Mage]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Walter Lippmann wrote:

> (Among other things, Rosa Miriam's discussion reminds readers
> that, unlike the view of many on the political left, Cubans
> generally have a favorable outlook on Christopher Colombus.)

> ...nations that were able to overcome their own shortcomings – like  
> Venice, which built its greatness from its waterways...


It is not so surprising that Spanish-descended Cubans would feel some
gratitude for the genocide that opened the island to their forebears.   
But
why the favorable view of the Venetian pirate state, whose "greatness"
was largely based on the looting of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade?


Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos