GUSTAVO A MARANGES—Many people might question the action of those Cubans who protested, although it is a genuine claim understood by the country’s authorities at all levels. Our hands on President Miguel Diaz-Canel himself recently stated that it is understandable that people get upset and irritated amid so many adversities, and assured the population that everyone is working tirelessly to alleviate the problem given the conditions at hand.
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FRANK SCOTT—While the U.S. conducts a proxy war against Russia, killing thousands and spending billions, and moves closer to a greater direct war with China with the threat of nuclear conflict greater than since what was called the Cold War, fossil fuels not only grow in use but face puny measures at control compared to what is needed if there is to be a tomorrow for the present generation and not simply future humanity.
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BEN TOTH—Decommunization is not only a process in which history is rewritten and new folklore for nation states is built, it is a continuous process of any land to blame its own shortcomings – poverty, war, economic hardship – on the go-to patsy : It is the fault of the communists. This in turn leads to ethnocentrism, and the central tenet of far-right ideologies : A Dream of Former Glory, lost because of the communists that must be restored, and usually at the expense of another group.
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“Calm down?” Let me quote you Mao Zedong:
//Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again . . . until their doom- that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over . . and they will never go against this logic. This is a Marxist law. When we say “imperialism is ferocious”, we mean that its nature will never change, that the imperialists will never lay down their butcher knives, that they will never become Buddhas, till their doom. -
CYNTHIA CHUNG—I would like to make a quick note here, that part of my family comes from Hong Kong, and it is most clearly the case that they saw themselves as superior to the Chinese living on the mainland, whom they viewed as dirty peasants, and likely have retained this prejudice despite mainland China now economically thriving with many cities being much more affluent and beautiful than Hong Kong. My family that grew up in Hong Kong, largely identified with western idealisation, and my mother and siblings have even confessed to me that they wished they had been born with more western features in their appearance. Does that sound like freedom to you?
