cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/22162
The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of Cuba News, a daily . . .
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It’s not even that they had the best PR machine in the world, is was that Plato was a fascist little shit who was a Sparta-boo, and he was the primary source for most Greek history for a very very long time. Most Athenians thought Spartans were a joke because their ability to create a navy sucked (because they ran a slave economy).
I always love the Sparta story about Philip of Macedon saying “if I invade sparta you will be destroyed, never to rise again”
Spartas response? “If.”
Very cool.
What happened next was that they got invaded and destroyed. They’re like the original fascists with how much shit they suck