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Re: Cuba
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:35:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

Have you forgotten what I do for a living?

  Actually, what *do* you do for a living?  I thought you just built boats...

     Dave!

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  Re: Cuba
 
(...) Oh, no. Not you too! First my own mother and now Dave! (See? I can work your name in too, Dave! Hey! I did it again!) In all seriousness, I'm a historian, primarily of Britain and imperialism in 19th- and 20th-C. Africa. Because I teach and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Cuba
 
(...) Not "as they see fit." That again imputes capitalist values and a hierarchical structure to the actions of communist leadership. "For the common good" is more accurate. Now, *in practice*, it has often *been* "as they see fit," true...but (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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