Richter stages his warning as a novel in which the narrator is a steadfast believer in the socialist cause. His family is torn apart. Each suffers. Some die. None of the touted benefits of the new socialist paradise come to pass. FULL ARTICLE by Floy Lilley
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The Dupes of Socialism
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Reminds me of the dupes I grew up with in NYC. Even as the consequences of failed policies literally destroyed neighborhoods, families and schools, all the dupenvolk could do was clamor for more of the same failed policies. A few, for sure, did finally see a touch of light as our protagonist here did. A very few. Sad. All the more incentive for LvMI to carry on the good work.
“The Dupes of Socialism” – this sounds like a good title for a new TV show!
Who is going to play Daisy Dupe?
Sorry, just wanted to say I liked the picture for this entry. The man’s hand is partially covering the E, so the word hope turns into hop, as in, “jump!”.
Meanwhile, Fidel informs a journalist that socialism just doesn’t work. What gave him that idea? Perhaps the intelligent dolphins.
People tend to ask for forgiveness for past transgressions when they see the end of the road. This is Fidel’s light at the end of the tunnel moment. It takes the threat of final death to see the error of his ways.
seemed more a lapsus than anything else.
Perhaps, but Goldberg did note that some “loosening” is taking place, such as implementation of some sort of property rights. Property rights is pretty much the place to start if you want to de-socialize…Who knows, maybe we’ll see an LvMI event in Cuba in our lifetimes…
Perhaps it was the realization that Cuban socialism cannot exist without the Soviets propping it up
Why, of all people, did Fidel share this confession with Jeffrey Goldberg?
I’m with newson on this.
Mumbo-jumbo of a faded, jaded brain.
If he were re-apparelled in his 45-year old body, he’d do it all over again.
With even more relish.
Yeah, this can be written off as something said in a mental haze. Reminds me of an R.D. Laing passage about telling delusion from truth:
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