ubieta, a cuban thinker, writes on the blog cambios en cuba a well basted tome but poorly argued, where 3 fundamental ideas hit me. one, which suggests the cuban right creates their own left. another, that the enemies of the cuban revolution want to abolish the old dilemma socialism-capitalism and to be replaced with democracy-totalitarism. and the third: there are several battle fronts but more importantly of ideas'. i'm going to start with this last. it should be seen as jose marti still influences the cuban thought. i don't think either blame fidel which put him as military quarters assailant, but our own lack of dialectical resources. bring ideas of a habanero performer poet -rhetorical in addition-, a net product of the spain colonialism, for the current world situations -21st century- is ridiculous, by anachronistic. but if ubieta is talking about propaganda, it's another thing. then he should call it by its name. the ideological fight is another euphemism invented by cuba to disguise realities. if to technology, information (internet), and chocolate bars cuba has to tagged as ideological problems, it's the way in which the government manipulates its propaganda, even as the cold war's style. from this side we only say that technology, internet and chocolate bars are good and this is what the world now enjoy on a daily basis. but let's move on to the other ubieta's theory, the right wing creating his own left wing. that only works if ubieta accepts the opposite alternative, that doesn't accept it: the left creates also its own right. if the left of miami is charlie saladrigas; the right of havana is john cabañas. but those aren't leftists or rightists but opportunistic entrepreneurs. that they are fully entitled to the bussines and the opportunism. but catalogue them on one side or another is steadiness -again- from the cold war, which comes to engage also with the last statement of ubieta: the replacement of the socialism-capitalism by democracy-totalitarism dilemma. ubieta assumes that the management of the government in the economy defines its way of exercising power, a propaganda premise used in the cold war by both sides and that's why part of the ideology was the space race and sports clashes. but variants of socialism were the germany of hitler and libya's gaddafi. variants of capitalism were the chile of pinochet and japanese militarism. none of these governments quota democracy but they were flourishing economies. some ones went to war using sophisticated machinery; others subjugated the world frozen the oil; and others took to remove its country from a suffocating debt. and ultimately those governments fell not by confrontation of ideas but lead's, caused by the propaganda and democracy. but if the chilean fascism lost without hole in the neck, it was thanks to democracy and propaganda. and just there, ubieta loses his bet again. if he changes the terms of war of ideas by propaganda; and democracy -if capitalism or socialism- is more livable than all totalitarism... is something else. bring me another thinker, this is very weak, so old fashioned that he looks that he came out from the pages of the 50s mccarthyite reader's digest or the 70s sputnik magazine, before the glasnost and perestroika.©varela
Saturday, September 8, 2012
UBIETA RUPESTRE
ubieta, a cuban thinker, writes on the blog cambios en cuba a well basted tome but poorly argued, where 3 fundamental ideas hit me. one, which suggests the cuban right creates their own left. another, that the enemies of the cuban revolution want to abolish the old dilemma socialism-capitalism and to be replaced with democracy-totalitarism. and the third: there are several battle fronts but more importantly of ideas'. i'm going to start with this last. it should be seen as jose marti still influences the cuban thought. i don't think either blame fidel which put him as military quarters assailant, but our own lack of dialectical resources. bring ideas of a habanero performer poet -rhetorical in addition-, a net product of the spain colonialism, for the current world situations -21st century- is ridiculous, by anachronistic. but if ubieta is talking about propaganda, it's another thing. then he should call it by its name. the ideological fight is another euphemism invented by cuba to disguise realities. if to technology, information (internet), and chocolate bars cuba has to tagged as ideological problems, it's the way in which the government manipulates its propaganda, even as the cold war's style. from this side we only say that technology, internet and chocolate bars are good and this is what the world now enjoy on a daily basis. but let's move on to the other ubieta's theory, the right wing creating his own left wing. that only works if ubieta accepts the opposite alternative, that doesn't accept it: the left creates also its own right. if the left of miami is charlie saladrigas; the right of havana is john cabañas. but those aren't leftists or rightists but opportunistic entrepreneurs. that they are fully entitled to the bussines and the opportunism. but catalogue them on one side or another is steadiness -again- from the cold war, which comes to engage also with the last statement of ubieta: the replacement of the socialism-capitalism by democracy-totalitarism dilemma. ubieta assumes that the management of the government in the economy defines its way of exercising power, a propaganda premise used in the cold war by both sides and that's why part of the ideology was the space race and sports clashes. but variants of socialism were the germany of hitler and libya's gaddafi. variants of capitalism were the chile of pinochet and japanese militarism. none of these governments quota democracy but they were flourishing economies. some ones went to war using sophisticated machinery; others subjugated the world frozen the oil; and others took to remove its country from a suffocating debt. and ultimately those governments fell not by confrontation of ideas but lead's, caused by the propaganda and democracy. but if the chilean fascism lost without hole in the neck, it was thanks to democracy and propaganda. and just there, ubieta loses his bet again. if he changes the terms of war of ideas by propaganda; and democracy -if capitalism or socialism- is more livable than all totalitarism... is something else. bring me another thinker, this is very weak, so old fashioned that he looks that he came out from the pages of the 50s mccarthyite reader's digest or the 70s sputnik magazine, before the glasnost and perestroika.©varela