Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
= we don't have the luxury of perfect principled idealism
If Cuba was merely a capitalist state with a red coat of paint, why would the US go through all this trouble and not just treat it like Paraguay or Panama?
I'd like to hear a way to deal with fascists that isn't just a flowery euphemism for the same mechanisms as a police force. Go to Chiapas and tell them to disarm like FARC did.
= we don't have the luxury of perfect principled idealism
If Cuba was merely a capitalist state with a red coat of paint, why would the US go through all this trouble and not just treat it like Paraguay or Panama?
I'd like to hear a way to deal with fascists that isn't just a flowery euphemism for the same mechanisms as a police force. Go to Chiapas and tell them to disarm like FARC did.