Wednesday, 29 September 2010

FAMILY

Once again, in a speech, Fidel Castro lashed out at capitalism. Over the years, I have tried to understand why he, who has obviously seen the devastating consequences of communism on the economies that adopted that utopian system, continues to attack the only system that is capable of generating wealth.

Dinosaur? At first, I thought so. Then, the other day, I remembered that he was the illegitimate son of a capitalist father. I also recalled that he had married into a very wealthy Cuban family. Finally, it came to my mind that, right throughout his life, he disliked work with a ferocious intensity.

I wonder... Could he, at his ripe age, still have an unresolved issue with his father?