From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: freedom from/to - (nf) Article-I.D.: dadla-b.377 Posted: Sun Mar 13 22:49:53 1983 Received: Fri Mar 18 01:39:33 1983 References: ucbcad.846 Only one point to make before I duck out of this discussion (I really can't afford to be in too many forums - workers have to work) Michael Turner made the point that in Cuba, the wealth really did get redistributed. Ah, but to whom, and how? Michael, I hope you don't seriously think that it got to that ephemeral and extremely subjective entity, "the people" because it just ain't so, and in fact what seems to be the situation there at the present time is a system that is just as economically stratified as before Castro, but with the military government holding all the wealth and having real trouble getting any of it to "the people" even when it tries. Oh well - just trying to redusce simplification. -Steve Hutchison