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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
First Magness, Cuba is the only evil repressive dictatorship that has an elected parliament and president. Or at least the only one that I can think of. Why do you consider it evil? Why do you consider Marxism evil? Just curious really.
And I do think most of the worlds problems are capitalism's fault. But the US is just as much a victim in my eyes as any other country. The US has the concentration of capitalists that many other countries don't, but that doesn't make them my enemy. If you have read the CM then you will remember that communism is an international force, so we can't pick on one country. Marx said that communism would work better in an industrial democracy like England or the US, that is why IMO Russia failed so badly so quickly. The country was just not ready for revolution, the majority didn't support it like they did in Cuba. That is why in Cuba communism has survived without oppression, whereas in Russia it only kept going with extremely oppressive measures. Measures it was better off without from a humanitarian point of view.
(Magness is rolling on the floor in extreme laughter.....)
Cuba not respresssive ....
(Magness once again rolls on the floor in laughter....)
C'mon Barry. Cuba is as much a democratic country as the Soviet Union was. The USSR's elections were a staged joke, and I have absolutely no doubt that the same is true of Cuba.
Cuba not repressive??? Any country that shoots at people who attempt to leave is definitely repressive.
IMHO, Fascism and Communism are different sides of the same evil coin.