Jill Stein on Fidel Castro
From Paste Magazine:
PASTE: While I have you here, I just wanted to get your reaction to Fidel Castro’s death.Interesting to know that sympathy for Communist movements and regimes, which off-and-on tainted liberalism all during the 20th century, is still around.
STEIN: It feels like the passing of an era of incredible struggle and he certainly represented the struggle against empire right across the water. Throughout the Caribbean, there’s been an incredible struggle — whether you live in Haiti or in Cuba or even much of the rest of South America, there’s been a great struggle for social justice and it’s been very difficult.
Castro was in many ways the face of that movement, which continues to this day.
Labels: Communism, Fidel Castro, Jill Stein, socialist
posted by John McAdams at 7:35 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting to know that sympathy for Communist movements and regimes, which off-and-on tainted liberalism all during the 20th century, is still around.
Well Fidel was a jolly good liberal in many ways, was he not? He, after all, is the only person to make concrete the plan of liberal moralist, Jeremy Bentham, for a prison, the Panopticon, in which every inmate would be under observation 24/7.
Today, of course, the more advanced liberal jurisdictions maintain every citizen, convicted or otherwise, under observation more or less 24/7 via near universally distributed video surveillance systems, airport X-ray machines, and Internet activity monitoring by the NSA and other such agencies.
So really, what is the difference between a Commie and an American liberal these days? Respect for the verdict of the people as expressed by the outcome of an election is not a distinguishing characteristic, to judge by the insincerity of the Clintonites to sincerely acknowledge defeat in the recent election.
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