Although most progressives in the West instinctively support Palestine – even though the victims are not Socialist or possess any Socialist intentions – when the US deliberately targets a genuine Socialist State, a roaring “silence” is the result from the bourgeois left. My eldest daughter had a friend when she first statred school – whose father was a Spanish Socialist (he had met her White, middle class mother whilst she was on holiday to Spain – as British people tend to do – even I have been to Spain). When we discussed Socialism (Communism) I always came from a Soviet (Stalinist)-Chinese (Mapist) perspective (reflecting my life) and he would counter with a Cuban-South American perspective (reflecting his). This taught ne a lesson about bia and presumption on the left – I mean – we all love Che Guevara, but very few of us give Latin American Socialism the respect it deserves, I certainly did not, but I do now. My meeting with this Spanish man taught me this. He said he did not really understand the Soviet or Chinese positions – as they did not speak to his material reality. Isn’t this just a brilliant observation?
