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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
March 7, 2008
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FDR's Young Admirer
By George Will
WASHINGTON -- The letter from a 12-year-old to "my good
friend Roosvelt" is dated Nov. 6, 1940, one day after FDR
won a third term. Saying he is "very happy" FDR won, he
adds: "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green
american." The letter, an enlarged copy of which is on
display in the National Archives, ends: "Good by. Your
friend, Fidel Castro."
Young Castro with his hand out prefigured his role in
political history. Until its spell was broken, Marxism
mesmerized millions by promising to solve mankind's
economic problem -- abundance without the alienation
caused by work, the French word for which is travail.
Instead, Castro created mendicant Marxism, making Cuba
dependent on huge subventions from the Soviet Union,
which paid eight times the market price for sugar, and
in the process purchased young Cuban men to fight in
various "wars of liberation." When Russia withdrew its
aid, Cuba's economy quickly shrank 35 percent, more
than the U.S. economy contracted (26.5 percent) in the
Depression. Cuba under communism had to import sugar.
Today, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela provides $4 billion of
oil to a Cuba with a GDP of $45 billion.
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The departure, if such it really is, of Castro, the weird
uncle in the island's attic, cures nothing. Cuba's
affliction remains: It is Castroism, which is communism
colored by Bonapartism. Communism of any stripe is
afflicted by terminal ignorance. Having no market, which
is an information-generating mechanism, communism cannot
know what things should cost.
Hence communism's amazing contribution to humanity's
economic history is "value-subtraction" -- products worth
less than the materials that go into them. That result
is seriously inconvenient for Marxism's labor theory of
value -- the theory that labor adds all value to the
world's materials.
Castro's career, although calamitous for Cubans, has
provided entertaining farce through its effect on Western
political pilgrims seeking leftist saviors. Joseph Goebbels
called the Nazi regime "ennobled democracy," the Dominican
dictator Rafael Trujillo called his "neo-democracy." In
1960, the second of Castro's 49 years as warden of Cuba
as prison, Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist and Stalinist,
published an enraptured book about Castro's democracy.
Sartre marveled at what he called Castro's "direct
democracy" as demonstrated when, at a roadside stand,
Castro and Sartre were served warm lemonade.
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Castro got hot. The tepid drink, he said, "reveals a lack
of revolutionary consciousness." The waitress, Sartre
reported, shrugged and said the refrigerator was broken.
Castro "growled" (Sartre's approving description), "Tell
your people in charge that if they don't take care of their
problems, they will have problems with me." Sartre, deeply
stirred, wrote:
"This was the first time I understood -- still quite
vaguely -- what I called 'direct democracy.' Between the
waitress and Castro, an immediate secret understanding
was established. She let it be seen by her tone, her
smiles, by a shrug of her shoulders, that she was without
illusion."
Norman Mailer, the novelist, and Oliver Stone, embodiment
of Hollywood progressives in heat, had illusions galore.
In 1960, when Castro came to Manhattan, Mailer, banal even
when in ecstasy, wrote of white horses: "One felt life in
one's cold overargued blood. ... It was as if the ghost of
Cortes had appeared in our century riding Zapata's white
horse." Just a few years ago, Stone, a slow learner, advised:
"We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest
people."
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In the wise man's prisons -- according to Armando
Valladares' memoir of 22 years in them ("Against All Hope")
-- some doors are welded shut and prisoners are fed watery
soup sometimes laced with glass, or dead rats, or half a
cow's intestine, rectum included, containing feces. In
2003, the wise man's pulverizing police state, always
struggling to reduce Cuba's civil society to a dust of
individuals, sentenced 78 democracy advocates, after one-
day secret trials, to sentences of up to 28 years in those
prisons. Pilgrims praising Cuban health care call to mind
Pat Moynihan's acerbic observation that when travel to
China was liberalized, many visitors seemed more impressed
by the absence of flies than by the absence of freedom.
Castro has ruled Cuba during 10 U.S. presidencies and
longer than the Soviet Union ruled Eastern Europe. The
Economist has called him "a Caribbean King Lear." Raging
on his island heath, with nothing to celebrate except his
endurance, his creativity has come down to this: He has
added a category to the taxonomy of world regimes --
government by costume party. Useful at last, the Comandante,
dressed for success in his military fatigues, presides
over a museum of Marxism.
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