Sunday, October 29, 2006

Navy in New Haven?

So I've been running into Navy guys all weekend. Is it New Haven fleet week or something? Makes me a little uncomfortable, to be honest...

On an entirely unrelated note, Prof. Sam Farber gave an excellent lecture on the nature of Cuban "socialism" today at Columbia. As expected, he argued, convincingly, that Cuba is not a socialist state, or at least not in any meaningful way. Worker's democracy and socialism go hand-in-hand; but Cuba, in his analysis, is a psuedo-Stalinist authoritarian dictatorship. Smart guy: check out his book The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered.

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