Quote of the Day (Castro)

"Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income."—Raul Castro, president of Cuba by virtue of his kid-brother relationship to that nation’s longtime El Jefe Fidel, quoted in Time, July 28, 2008
(The occasion: the need to soften his countrymen up for reduced government subsidies. Never pleasant, and particularly not now, when the Communist Soviet Union is dead and can’t finance them and what tourism there is from the U.S. dries up because of the dollar. What we are witnessing, folks, is the end of a half-century of illusion. Not for the people of Cuba, mind you, who probably have precious few after all this time, but for Western intellectuals who viewed the island as a bulwark against that capitalist tool and imperialist roader, Uncle Sam. It’s like the climax in George Orwell’s Animal Farm when a new sign appears: “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”)