The Declarations of Havana - Tariq Ali presents Fidel Castro Audiobook
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In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plan for neoliberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castro’s message today.
Includes an exclusive additional introduction by Tariq Ali.
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 5/5
July 6th, 2018
I was wondering, who sets the keywords for this site? Keywords: Castro Neoliberalism Socialism?
Talk about watered down. That’s a like calling Freddy Kruger a child’s bedtime story.
But then again, the left idolizes mass murders like Che and Mao.
July 6th, 2018
Thanks at the very least for contributing, enigma. But Tariq has always carried water for extremely brutal tyrants like Castro. He is constitutionally incapable of being impartial.
Surely he and others are morally obliged to assess why gay people and people who suffered from HIV/AIDS were put into concentration camps by the Castro regime. Also, the litany of murders and the apparatus of state terror. The extensive, brutal torture carried out by this benighted state (mutilation of genitals; forcing prisoners to eat their own faeces; life imprisonment for mild or suspected criticism of the despot or his government).
Excoriating and damning reports from Amnesty International.
The stockpiling of funds by the Castro family. And on, ad nauseam. How can anyone hero-worship degenerates like these?
Hardly surprising that people were repeatedly willing to brave shark-infested waters on makeshift vessels to escape this socialist paradise.
July 6th, 2018
The Left is looking for heroes in all the wrong places
July 6th, 2018
Isn’t it essential, in order to retain our humanity, to condemn all of the savage, human rights abusing regimes, wherever they are to be found? Not merely to compartmentalise the ones we like, the dehumanising ideologies which we retain affection for?
For decades in the west, the left harboured admiration for Stalin, Mao, et al, and ignored the forced starvation of 60 million people and the direct murders of tens of millions of others.
The same process has been observable in relation to Cuba. Many people I know, who are vastly over-educated, will, when questioned on this and associated subjects, raise every possible objection, pivot away and misdirect. The most educated and the least wise.
Frequently, the more academic the person, the better their techniques of evasion and self-deception.
Revealingly, Castro and friends never tested their policies in a tricky, unpredictable process like a democratic election. We can at least get rid of geniuses.
July 6th, 2018
…by voting them out.
July 6th, 2018
lol… the irony of so many comments saying the “left” idolized mass murders when there’s seldom any such behavior. Also funny that when those same people attribute all those death to communism because it under communist leadership, they don’t ever attribute death and suffering in capitalist system to capitalism. How very convenient.
July 6th, 2018
@BioCapsule - “seldom any such behavior.” Absolutely astounding.
Also, I have to correct you on the point of not attributing death and suffering to the capitalist system. On the page for the book “Four Futures” by Peter Frase, I made that identical point to you, as a matter of fact: “Just for balance, capitalist countries are not innocent in this regard. Britain caused or exploited famines in India, Ireland and Kenya, within their Empire, upon which the sun never set.”
It was a process known as imperialism.
Unless that was another BioCapsule?
July 6th, 2018
@Biocapsule How is it astounding when you are basing your assessment on your anecdotal experience. Do you frequently hear or see people who aren’t part of their personal cult going on about Stalin & Mao (whom I consider sociopath) as their personal hero? I think not…
Yes “upon the sun never set”, but that’s not simply imperialism, nor is capitalism simply capitalism, same goes for communism. Those terms have the tendency involve whatever scope & scales for whomever, justifying whatever. When it suited you… the blame goes to Imperialism and pretend capitalist elements are not involve. Granted mine too were personal anecdotal experience but it is safe to say you can find comment of someone blaming communism at large practically anywhere the topic is raise.
July 6th, 2018
Sry mispaste… suppose to be @Caesar963.
July 6th, 2018
Ha ha ha ‘ralphdmann’ is an uneducated tw#t, who probably has posters of Trump above his bed.
July 6th, 2018
@Audio1917, old chap! I commend you for rightly condemning the Nazis. Are you going to detail Stalin’s anti-Semitism, as well? And the pogroms?
What about the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia? The atrocities and mass murders of the communist regime in North Korea? Angola? Eastern Europe under the Soviets? China? Left-wing revolutionaries wherever they operate?
Or are communist and socialist murders acceptable, even desirable?
But, more to the point, what about Cuba? After all, that’s what the book relates to, remember?
I’ve yet to see you criticise the atrocities committed by Castro and friends - or are we to look at everything but those? I see.
July 6th, 2018
@BioCapsule - No, not anecdotal or from cultish elements. The British intelligentsia for many years refused to acknowledge or condemn communist atrocities. One of their leading lights, Eric Hobsbawm, thought any number of innocent deaths was a price worth paying in order to forcibly install Communism. He put the amount in the tens of millions. He was not a man to criticise Stalin.
Yet this moral titan was venerated as a respected historian and public intellectual of the left. He held these right up to his death, just a few years ago. It would be tough to admit you were wrong on such a massive scale.
What kind of arrogance would it take to imagine that you can look on and decide who deserves life?
Unions and some political parties in Europe held much the same views for many decades.
They seemed to desire the introduction of this brutal, unaccountable system.
On your second point point - no, I was condemning good, old-fashioned imperialism. The repressive, extractionist kind my country suffered under. The purpose of such was profit, hence capitalist. There was no pretense involved, as the people starved to death, the British continued to export whatever food was left - for profit.
I’m willing to call evil by its proper name, no equivocation.
July 6th, 2018
@Caesar963 lol ahhh… so I ask you do you often see many, and you give me 1 person, granted a famous one. And while I am not familiar with him, I don’t think he even did that. So again. How is it astounding? As for my point… those that blame communist at large may not be famous, I think you wouldn’t disagree there are many.
2) Than you should very well understand that Marx primary works is the short coming of capitalism as a process, that remains true… but there was never any precise method it needs to follow. Nor does it ever exclude the possibility of psychopaths. Which is why the “how” debate is just as hot within what people call the “left”. So it always come downs to this… do you want to change & fix the system for the better, regardless of what they end up calling you. :)
If you do… than I don’t see what the problem is.
July 7th, 2018
@rospam Thank you for allowing me to win the argument.
I made two points in my comment. One was an observation that the keywords were rather watered down and I point this out using satire (I guess you didn’t understand that). My second point was to illustrate the left’s love of all things socialistic. I can’t turn the channel without the news showing and interviewing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I see kids wearing Che and Mao shirts.
Your rebuttal was to call me a name, attempt to demean me and then make an unknown assumption based or your own limited insights. I have a suggestion for you, go back to your room in your parent’s basement, put on your Che shirt and turn on your Xbox. Fortnite is calling you.
July 7th, 2018
Every poor sod who dies of hunger or cold on our streets is a direct result of capitalism and inequality. Every child who grows up in a broken family is a direct result of capitalism, greed, selfishness and inequality, every act of gang-related violence should be attributed to capitalism and inequality it breeds. Look at the Socialist Scandinavian countries where socialism is allowed to prosper without US interference, happiest places on Earth. Every socialist/ communist society that failed was driven to failure by Capitalist interference by the CIA and the US stooges.
July 7th, 2018
@Audi0books - I appreciate what you’re saying and I believe we have a moral and pragmatic obligation to help those who are less fortunate. But the sticking point is - how to achieve that end? A democratic, accountable system where we can review and revise our procedures and practically implement social measures, is the best available compromise. The kind of authoritarian, homicidal slums that communism produced is not the solution. All the social ills that you catalogue were/are present in such realms; hunger (famine!), shortages cold, blatant inequality, broken families, addiction, full orphanages, state terror and surveillance, secret police, secret courts, inequality before the law, no right of appeal, concentration camps, greed, selfishness, violence and torture, summary executions. That list is not exhaustive - you could double it yourself without much effort.
No opportunity to change that toxic system was available with the coercive control of the state looming over the people.
These were some serious internal contradictions and self generated problems.
The CIA did not force the communists to murder, starve and repress their own people. 150 million human beings “liquidated?”.
The Scandinavians did get a lot of things right - early intervention with disadvantaged children to ensure that it’s not actually possible to distinguish children from rich or poor families. They have the same opportunities and advantages.
Please don’t imagine that these countries are states of ideal perfection, however. Their rates of depression, suicide and addiction are the highest in Europe.
Finland ranks third in global gun ownership behind only America and Yemen; has the highest murder rate in western Europe, double that of the UK; and by far the highest suicide rate in the Nordic countries.
School shootings are also an unfortunate phenomenon in Finland.
Alcohol is now the leading cause of death for Finnish men.
The Danes have the highest level of private debt in the world (four times as much as the Italians, to put it into context; enough to warrant a warning from the IMF).
According to the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment rankings (Pisa), Denmark’s schools lag behind even the UK’s. Its health service is buckling too.
Sweden is effectively a one-party state - albeit supported by a couple of shadowy industrialist families - for much of the 20th century, although Sweden is “neutral” it remains one of the world’s largest arms exporters.
Youth unemployment is higher than the UK’s and higher than the EU average; integration is an ongoing challenge; and as with Norway and Denmark, the Swedish right is on the rise.
Read “The Almost Nearly Perfect People – The Truth About the Nordic Miracle” - Michael Booth.
Again, hardly Utopia.
July 8th, 2018
Many thanks, should be interesting.
January 30th, 2021
Castro’s Net worth at the time of his death (couldn’t happen sooner, unfortunately) was over 1 Billion Dollars! Not a very good Socialist, was he? Yet, his people were/are starving to death.
Maybe Michael Moore could go there and have the populous eat him. Should feed a family of 4 for at least a month.
August 25th, 2022
Been looking for this fantastic audiobook for ages. Thank you. Fidel was such a humanitarian and Latin America today is reaping the rewards of his opposition to US extremism and hegemony. Whilst the US harbours terrorists, foments coups and condones and commits genocide, Cuba continues to be a beneficial force in the world. Hasta la siempre, Commandante
April 26th, 2024
Thank you
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