In Defense of Progress

By: Samuel Farber

Socialists can’t give up on the future.

Illustration by Rose Wong

Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the neighborhood when our city’s side streets were paved and the road connecting Marianao with the capital was widened. Even my Jewish immigrant parents, who just a few years earlier had discovered that their […]

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Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the neighborhood when our city’s side streets were paved and the road connecting Marianao with the capital was widened. Even my Jewish immigrant parents, who just a few years earlier had discovered that their […]

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Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the neighborhood when our city’s side streets were paved and the road connecting Marianao with the capital was widened. Even my Jewish immigrant parents, who just a few years earlier had discovered that their […]

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Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the neighborhood when our city’s side streets were paved and the road connecting Marianao with the capital was widened. Even my Jewish immigrant parents, who just a few years earlier had discovered that their […]

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