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cuba is not socialist.
it’s an authoritarian regime. trade unions are oppressed and the workers are still fucked over, it’s been under castro and his ‘revolution’ (which was basically a load of middle class people overthrowing a horrible regime to put in place another rather shitty regime, it…
True, Cuba is not socialist. But I would argue that it isn’t any more authoritarian or less democratic than a country like the US. The poor have power there in the sense that they get insanely good health care and mental health care, free education throughout life, free food and housing. The poor in the US are listened to far less than the poor in Cuba.
Lower infant mortality rate, higher literacy, better mental health, and much more of a community focus, make Cuba a far better country to live in than the US for even middle-class Americans.
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First of all, to the guy who disagreed with me on the basis that Cuba is not a dictatorship and government officials get...
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Oh, give it up. I’m not “singing the praises” of Cuba. This is how ridiculous that is: Anybody who dares to say that one...
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