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Vessarionovich t1_iyaw6o9 wrote

Reply to comment by the_grinning_cat in The trials of the Cuban revolution. Interesting facts about them as well as the roles of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara and the historical forces that drove these events. by Anglicanpolitics123

Your desperate prevarications don't change reality.

  1. Cuba trades with many countries in the world that are major trading partners with the USA. Canada is Cuba's largest source of exports.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba/Trade

  1. Has it ever occurred to you that the CPUSA is weak and tiny because they have no popular support? Regardless, they operate legally and are NOT repressed, unlike ALL non-communist Cuban parties.

  2. Freedom from whom? freedom to do what?"

Freedom from an oppressive government that brooks no opposition.

"Freedom to do what?

I realize that given your ideological proclivities, you're not very creative....but how about the freedom to vote in fair elections!...the freedom to start political parties, engaging in freedom of the press, and most importantly, having the freedom to criticize the government without being arrested (which is currently NOT the case; hundreds of human rights activists are languishing in Cuban jails, and you, purveyor of all that is good and righteous, could not care less).

You see.... your arguments can't stand the light of day....because they are constructed on intellectual and moral bankruptcies. Isn't it time to grow up and stop believing in chimera's like communism? It's been an economic and political nightmare everywhere it's ever been tried.

I've said my piece. Experience has taught me that the mind of a radical leftist is so ideologically straight-jacketed that a constructive dialogue is impossible. Therefore, I will neither respond to your reply...nor bother reading it.

Have a great night friend.

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the_grinning_cat t1_iychmng wrote

Cuba barely trades to survive, not to thrive or grow. At one point is beneficalto the US that Cuba is able to get the bare minimum to subsist. Otherwise the people would just fucking die and the US would be too explicit in their genocidical intentions against cubans. You cant be too explicit when commiting a genocide, right? And the cuban embargo is that, a genocide.

And regarding the CPUSA, in every complex phenomenon there are multiple causes. Communism parties represent the interests of the proletariat, and were historically responsible for the few concessions thst the capitalist class gave to workers (8 hour work day, vacations, child labor, etc.). So naturally they should have the support of all proletariats. But there are two facts:

  1. Communists were suppressed (either by assasination, imprisonment, blackmail, deportation, violence, etc.) from public life. Currently the violence is subtler, but when it truly mattered (50s, 60s and 70s) they were savagely repressed. If you care about history you should know that.

  2. American workers have suffered from decades of Cold War "red-scare". Massive anti communist propaganda that pits the workers against their interests.

And regarding the freedom, you can do those things in Cuba! You can engage in constructive discussion, just don't try to overthrow the government. The government is not totalitarian. It listens to its own people.

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