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This has really changed my view point on Castro. I'm not sure if he's been looking at lives of Cubans and realizing that maybe the revolution wasn't worth it, o

• stephenjudkins 16y ago
  It would have been great if he'd realized it earlier. However, I imagine that growing up during the great depression (especially under a series of kleptocrat dictators) changes one's perspectives on the relative merits of different economic systems. I'm currently reading a book on J. Robert Oppenheimer, and I've been struck by the seeming ubiquity of very left-wing views among brilliant young theoretical physicists in the 1930s. Combine the dire economic circumstances in the US at the time with the rise of the Nazis and little accurate knowledge of life under Stalin, and some very smart people came to conclusions that seem very misguided in retrospect.
  • maxharris 16y ago
    It is very difficult to develop your own philosophy from scratch, which is what it took back then to come to correct conclusions. In fact, doing this took nothing less than a genius in the field, and these are very rare.