ABSTRACT
To begin his critique of my article on “The Stalinization of Fidel Castro/’ as C. Ian Lumsden does, with a complaint about analytical weakness and internal inconsistency is one thing. But to fail utterly to deliver even a reasonable not necessarily true (only reasonable) optional model, is quite another. Were the rhetorical aspects of Mr. Lumsden’s remarks to be discounted, and we were to ask just how he perceives the present Cuban social system. The answer necessarily would be not very differently from the picture provided for within my own comparative analysis.
