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The Cuban political establishment has tended to showcase itself, and its system, as a leading forces vanguard, one that will inevitably realize and fulfill individual and collective human aspirations for whatever it is that humans (individually and collectively) aspire, or are at least taught to aspire.
And in some respects, perhaps, that is precisely what the State apparatus has managed to do--to showcase the daily lives of people in a post-apocalyptic state. Cuba does indeed serve as a model for the post global to which many aspire. But instead of this dream State:
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one will experience this (the pictures are from AP PHOTOS: Cuba’s energy crisis forces families to find ingenious solutions to get by):
The Cuban State will continue to blame everyone but itself for this state of conditions among the Cuban proletariat--workers, peasants, and intellectuals. And yet the nomenklatura perhaps ought to be asking itself how it might contribute more to actions that fulfill the potential of the 1959 Revolution--that is, after all, what all of this is supposed to be about. Sacrifice is one thing, certainly, in the attainment of an idea--even one that is not in accord with the times or with the expectations of other societies. That is for them to decide. Nonetheless, permanent states of misery ought to appear to be a betrayal of the Revolution itself--even on its own terms. And yet, perhaps, the Cuban State apparatus has shown the world, through its leadership, that is it possible to create stable states of misery and a pacified population for some (longish) period of time. See, Cuba and the Constitution of a Stable State of Misery: Ideology, Economic Policy, and Popular Discipline. One would hope they might do better, even under the international conditions which are their current lot.
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