From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T21:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [Way, Way OT] Re: How to hire a rubyist?

On 10/20/05, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
[...]
> For all your psuedo-intellectual revisionist history needs there's
> Communism. Trusted by more dictators than Fascism.

You know, this is getting *way* off topic, but both commentaries on
Che are, well, biased. Che *did* a lot of good for the people, but he
also did a lot of bad things on the way. It's also interesting to note
that "Democracy" is really good for "pseudo-intellectual revisionist
history" and imperialism in disguise.

We can go around this stuff quite easily and for a long time. It's not
nearly as simple as you're suggesting, Zed, and what Che and Castro
and the other revolutionaries have done for Cuba has been both good
and bad. It certainly broke a massive power and societal imbalance
that has hampered much of the rest of the Caribbean. (And the
Duvaliers of Haiti are arguably as bad or worse than Castro and have
nothing to do with Communism. Hell, the Great Democracy supported
them!)

-austin
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