A Times dispatch from the May Day parade in Havana, Cuba carries this passage:
"We're in this very interesting phase in which the public and private sector collaborate and compete at the same time," said Richard E. Feinberg, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, who is doing a study of Cuba's private sector.
New economic freedoms and the taxes paid by private-sector workers are also beginning to alter the relationship between individuals and the state, analysts say.
"The willingness of people to express an alternative point of view has definitely expanded," Dr. Feinberg said. "But it'll take a while before they begin to develop a class consciousness and a political articulation of their interests."
You can't make this stuff up. Is there anyplace in 2013 other than the news columns of the New York Times and maybe Professor Feinberg's classroom (or other university settings) where the term "class consciousness" is used this earnestly and without irony? Are Times readers supposed to be aided in their understanding of the course of events in Cuba by this sort of crude Marxist determinism? Can we expect an update from Havana with a headline when the private sector workers finally do "begin to develop a class consciousness"? If there were only any evidence of consciousness on the part of whatever editor on the foreign desk made the mistake of moving this one along without cutting that line.