WATCHING AMERICA - Joy in Latin America over Cuba opening

As a citizen of the United States and a Democratic Socialist I have long opposed the U.S. embargo on heroic little socialist Cuba. Even when the Cuban government fell short of international standards of liberty and democracy that did not explain the implacable hostility of the American ruling class. They also saw fit to assist an assassination plot against Salvador Allende of Chile, soon after he was elected president of Chile by popular vote. Our ruling class had no quarrel with the fascist regime of Pinochet ( his crimes against his own people are still being investigated. A few living accomplices of the right-wing dictator know where ALL the tortured-executed bodies of Allende supporters are buried.)

Whole books have documented the support of the CIA for bloody right-wing tyrannies all around the world. No, the basis for the implacable hostility to Cuba was the political base in Miami of reactionary Cuban exiles -who still dream of recovering their justly socialized PRIVATE PROPERTY. And to be sure, the U.S. ruling class has pronounced anathema on the very ideal of SOCIALISM anywhere in the world. "It can't work", their despicable intellectual representatives argue. But, of course, they will not even tolerate  SOCIALISM as a peaceful social experiment. They must sabotage and vilify it from the start.

The Russian Bolsheviks encountered this purely malignant attitude of capitalist governments in 1917. Was it so unprincipled and criminal of Lenin to withdraw Russian troops from the imperialist slaughter of the Great War? To cancel Czarist debts? To form a government of workers and peasants?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the American ruling class -as Vladimir Putin pointed out -was triumphant. But the idea that SOCIALISM was dead- and History had ended-was delusional.

Only a political stooge and idiot will believe that the American ruling class are all sentimental slobs for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY everywhere.

No, not even here in the USA. Recall the stolen presidential election of 2000. And today a reactionary Republican Senate and a reactionary Republican House represent US-the common people of America? No way, Jose

(Comment on article published in El Nacional , Dominican Republic on Dec.18, 2014 by Editorial, edited by Bora Mici)