LEFT PARADOXICAL
March 9, 2010 by Ricardo Melo Bridges
Posted in A (s) Category (s) Eduardo Escobar , General , Opinion
LEFT PARADOXICAL
Eduardo Escobar
By Eduardo Escobar
Years ago, the names of left and right in politics stripped copper. The grotesque machinery of oppression that constituted Stalinism and Nazism in the twentieth century are similar in a lot of things. And capitalist societies today are closer to fulfilling the ideals of humanism he could do the infamous Bolshevik experiment. Marxism and capitalism are based on the cult of work and appeal to happy and deceptive illusions of equity.
But capitalism still breathe the air of relative freedom precious. Chomsky thrives at home in Yankee academia, while dissidents languishing in jails of Marxism. Thus, when a tire is a Cuban feel the urge to take off Fidel paradise. Caught between the Commissioners and impartial fussy sharks.
Capitalism has its terrors. The death struggle for space, and hypertrophy, the desire for success and unbridled greed scare. But the Communists are aristocracies disguised chapels with their own filters and ways to recognize merit, and we know that it is better to a teacher of atheism that a Catholic activist in Cuba, better courtiers that critics of the inconsistency semantics of the single party.
Marxism radiates a mystique that attracts many people of good will. That allowed him to replace Che Jesus on the walls of the former seminarians as one educated in the Gospel and raised in the 60's in the midst of the effervescence of the liberation movements of the critical period. The desire for justice, solidarity, magnanimity allowed to consecrate as holy man looked for a new charity. Until proved less friendly aspects of his person. As the famous Dr. Kevorkian, Che was another medical expert on euthanasia, and balanced his virtues with the inclination to tyranny and cruelty of the inquisitor, and righteous instinct with the spirit of Robespierre and pathological narcissism.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
However, many in my generation nadaístas jipismo and enthrone him in our hovels of poets and prominent figure in the pantheon of the poet lean left next to Ho Chi Minh, and Mao (and Fidel and his cigar), and its name done blind eye to the evils of socialism until it was impossible to justify as mere defect of a young order. At the end of hope and disappointment were perplexed, a long chronicle of crimes against the human spirit, and renewal of faith in bourgeois liberalism: of two evils, the lesser.
Efforts to convert the ideals of communism to Cartesianism, a reasonable project apart from the Bolshevik barbarism and anarchism atilesco, to build a civilian left, decent and intelligent, have become another frustration. As befits the perpetual farce of things here on the left superstition itself survives in Colombia, always erratic, prone to fragmentation, not self-critical debate, anchored in the hateful conservatism Leninist orthodoxy. An example. The day before yesterday in Telesur, Canal Bolivar's successor, a Colombian whose name I remember is elaborated in an extensive report on President Uribe and his relatives living and dead with a grudge that demeritaba himself hinted that goes on tour slandering his poor European country, echoed the slogans of Chavez as the host opportunistic, and declared militant fervor Pole ice cream, if the expression. And I thought of the sad misfortune of our committed wrong thing left, if the pole is in the end the tentacle of the cumbersome bilious Bolivarian revolution, and whether to put Telesur provides its advertisers Chavez does more harm than good to the left Colombia, especially the little men wearing masks like that, grim, whose name I do not remember saying that. They say he was a poet. Who knows.
Courtesy of its author, taken from www.eltiempo.com 
Certainly the Cuban phenomenon contrasts with the economic evolution in China than in its break with the Soviet Union was not blocked and is a huge country and a millennial coltura when the blond men in Europe barbados stones killed and exterminated the mammoths , the Chinese and were dressed in silk robes, had written and ate pasta (if pasta is not Italian, nor gunpowder, let alone the intellectual espotismo, all that comes from China)
Cuban limitations are being by definition an island achieved its first period of partial independence with the 1959 Revolution, the independence of side effects information led to the U.S. occupation to become a Cabaret and gardening, something like New Orleans Louisiana, and Havana, and tropical music instead of jazz.
Without an independent history, Cuba was presented as David versus Goliath in the paranoia of the Cold War, it is regrettable that the Organization of American States voted the economic blockade of Cuba in brutal rejection of the will of a people in arms against the tyrant .
What would have happened to Cuba if instead of lock had intensified economic activity and international cooperation?
We do not know, what we do know is that the paranoia of the Cold War embargo against Cuba and kept Duvalier in Haiti. In Fidel's Cuba, natural losfenomenos have not destroyed the population in Haiti as a conventional earthquake occurring in Mexico City two or three times a agno, hundreds of thousands killed and maimed thousands, leaving entire cities no stone unturned.
What would have happened in Haiti if they had toppled Duvalier and his macoutes Tomtom? We do not know, but maybe it would be like the other side of the island, or as Chile, with much less dagnos and pain. Freedom can not exist on an empty stomach, can not be released without medical care, freedom can not exist without a roof over their heads.
Sitting at the Computer Accompanied by an aromatic coffee and planning the evening entertainment at the movies or theater to criticize the delivery of the Oscars is easy and fun to criticize, imagine speaking of God for all the blessings and blame Satan and the indolence for the deaths in Haiti or the lack of medicines in Cuba. For thirty societies Agnos is just one generation, the Germans were reunited with civility and humanity after the horrors of Hitler, Franco's Espagna rises after the Democratic hopeful and humanistic vocation, Cuba has been denied since exterminate Colon Caribbean population, if there had a population called Caribs, hence the good name of the sea and just killed them all and then kidnapped in Africa to enslave people and evangelize and civilize clearly-the opportunity to be an independent and free people able to travel the world without fear and receive visitors.
Hundreds of criminal attacks and invasions. If they can help the Cuban people to be free, to live without economic blockade to be able to trade with everyone, then do not criticize if you do not keep the neighbor's kids do not criticize the manner in which the educated!
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Ramon
THE CALL BLOCKING? The left lies and silent while the Cuban people under a dictatorship for 51 years, where only a few live well. What ignorance and bad faith in that comment, as ideological. Where are the ships cercanmdo to Cuba? You know that Cuba trades with every country in the world including U.S. receives goods It is, however, and only the United States, which does not allow banks will lend to Castro. You lie twice. Cubans live badly and the country has fallen into poverty due to the inability of the communists to run the economy, although experts repress. Why does not land in Cuba, is it the fault of the Americans? Why Castro destroyed the sugar industry, is it the fault of the Americans? Do not talk crap or try to confuse with sophistry. The only existing lock in Cuba is the Castro dictatorship against the people who did not permit or express themselves freely, or travel, or have business or own property or associations,
that is the true reality. You all are equal, poor in Colombia if we fall into their hands. Long live democracy.