[Marxism] Another critique of Sam Farber

[S. Artesian]

I haven't read Farber's book, and I'm not in any hurry to do so having read 
some of his articles.

The "critique" from RATB is  god-awful, no getting around that-- there's 
that section about Cubanology, which I guess is designed to link Farber to 
CIA funded liberal university counterrevolutionary studies.  If Farber is 
linked to that, why not just provide the evidence?  If he isn't, why give it 
such prominence unless you what to establish something through text 
juxtaposition rather than analysis.

And the critique uses "Trotskyist" as a perjorative, as if Farber's analysis 
has anything to do with Trotsky.

Farber's analysis of Cuba, in the articles I've read, is pretty bad-- it's 
ahistorical, and a-materialist, and misses the point-- the bourgeoisie were 
expropriated, expelled, exiled.  That's a significant thing to miss when 
you're dealing with class struggle.

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