Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Leninism and Lennonism aren't that far apart. Some thoughts on the Rolling Stones in Cuba

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/03/leninism-and-lennonism-arent-that-far-apart-some-thoughts-on-the-rolling-stones-in-cuba-.html

Capitalism has not defeated communism in a triumph of Christian conservatism. It has merged with Communism in a bizarre synthesis of Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping, in which it is glorious to get rich, personal morality is more or less irrelevant, the state monitors minds and regulates all, but yet takes no responsibility for anything, & the freedom of the market entails no freedom of thought, but there are lots of consumer goods and self-indugences to make up

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/rolling-stones-cuba-historic-concert-diplomacy

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