<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[the commune]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[internationalcommunist]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://thecommune.wordpress.com/author/internationalcommunist/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[socialist democracy and cuba after&nbsp;castro]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<em>Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back in again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves</em>.&#8221; Eugene Victor Debs, 1905.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>A socialism without democracy and civil liberties, where equality is limited to sharing poverty, is little different from a beehive with a Queen Bee in command. In such a society individualism would surely be eliminated, except for the Queen Bee’s, but so would political pluralism and individuality, which is not the same thing as individualism</em>.&#8221;<strong> </strong>Samuel Farber</p>
<p>We would like to draw our readers&#8217; attention to this interesting exchange between Samuel Farber and Saul Landau over the situation in Cuba and the transformations it is set to experience.</p>
<p><a href="http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/5205">Life after Fidel &#8211; by Samuel Farber</a></p>
<p><a href="http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/5208">Landau&#8217;s reply and a further response by Farber</a></p>
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