Silvio RodrÃguez, Cuba’s best-known singer-songwriter, was critical of the government’s heavy-handed approach to the protests, calling for the release of non-violent demonstrators. Photograph: Franklin Reyes/AP
The Guardian: Cuban leftists begin to turn their fire on the ‘harmful practices of the state’
Leading radicals are raising their voices against the demand for uncritical backing for the government
Luis Emilio Aybar is a voice from the left, which in Cuba means pretty far left. By any measure, he should be a stalwart defender of the island’s communist regime. After widespread public protests that two weeks ago roiled the nation, the 34-year-old published an article in the magazine La Tizza, which bills itself as “a space to think about socialism”.
After the prerequisite denunciation of the US, he wrote: “What happened on 11 July is also because we communists and revolutionaries do not fight with sufficient force and efficiency the harmful practices of the state.
“We defend unity in a way that actually harms it … We uncritically follow our leaders instead of rectifying their path. We agree to be disciplined, when what we have to do is think and act with our own heads.” In authoritarian Cuba, that sounded a lot like heresy.
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WNU Editor: I saw the same thing happened in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s. When the Communist Party's intellectual/artistic class started to be critical of the state (especially after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster), I knew that it was only a question of time before the system itself would unravel. In the case of the Soviet Union, it took about 5 years. In the case of Cuba I do not know how long it is going to take before Cuba's Communist Party relinquishes control, but I do see many parallels between today's unrest in Cuba and the Soviet Union in the late1980s.
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WNU,
That's a good news!
" but I do see many parallels between today's unrest in Cuba and the Soviet Union in the late1980s."
You are mean man. You scared many American communists and they will have to find safe spaces.
Except for the Ayers types.
That's happening now in America too.. the intellectuals, the party formerly known as Republicans , its members not its representatives, which are on the globalist payroll, doesn't believe the system works, that the administration is illegitimate and so on.
So 5 years for America? Or maybe 10?
What is the hourly salary on the globalist payroll?
The salary is great but you have to give up your soul. That's why they all look like that emperor from star wars.. Pelosi.. look at her, that demonic ghoul.. Biden that pedo.. all in with tyranny though.. they don't care
Interesting times. Not a Berlin Wall yet but....
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