Charles' way

[Mike Weaver]

Um,
         Hate to inform you Charles, but Lenin never fell out of favour, he 
had a stroke or two. Stalin is who you are talking about. Sure, Lenin was 
an opportunist, but he was also a dedicated uncorrupt leader and 
opportunism with that combination adds up to "seizing the time".

Please read Late Victorian Holocausts before you say much more about  the 
capital v commie death score. As I recall, in the last 50 years, outside 
the horn of Africa,  the Soviet bloc - in contrast with PRC and capitalist 
blocs - has lost very few lives to famine and epidemic.

>Worker's resistance is a necessary element of such a
>process, and I am all for it........

As long as the workers stop short of abolishing private control of the economy.

I wish I had time to answer you point for point, but I don't. Since you 
have the free time to rattle off regular replies could you answer this one 
for me?

In  capitalist democracy  the population has no way to directly affect 
economic development via the ballot box. They do not elect the captains of 
industry. These emerge by a evolutionary route, natural selection according 
to the current economic laws. The strategic development of capitalism is 
controlled by the interests of shareholders, a small minority of the 
system's population.

In Cuban democracy, the population  has no way to directly affect economic 
development via the ballot box. They do not elect the captains of industry 
(department ministers). These emerge by a evolutionary route, natural 
selection according to the current political laws i.e  indirectly elected 
and appointed, just like our political executives. The strategic 
development of Cuban economy is controlled by an interplay between larger 
expediences represented by those political leaders and local government, 
which is directly elected by the population.

Capitalism is not and could never be economically democratic, there have to 
be losers for the system to work.
How come you claim capitalist nations to be democratic and Cuba not?