I am astounded by recent & remote historical evidence of every bad thing: socialism / communism / fascism / totalitarianism w/ even real time examples like Cuba or Venezuela & yet the geniuses in charge hubristically believe they’ve never worked because THEY were not in charge & utopia will work under their enlightened & so much smarter…
I am astounded by recent & remote historical evidence of every bad thing: socialism / communism / fascism / totalitarianism w/ even real time examples like Cuba or Venezuela & yet the geniuses in charge hubristically believe they’ve never worked because THEY were not in charge & utopia will work under their enlightened & so much smarter “leadership”.
They don’t want to learn because power & control are all that matter. Nothing about doing good for humanity & flourishing
I'm not sure why you call Communism in Cuba a bad thing, when a revolution was needed to topple the corrupt dictatorship - who else was able to lead a revolution if not revolutionaries? Little girls with flowers? Well , we saw what happened to them in Iran recently - peaceful revolutions rarely shifts an absolutist and totalitarian government, armed insurrection is often the only way.
Undoubtedly the implacable hostility of the USA/C IA to the Castro regime did not help the regime become more liberal and tolerant over time.
I'd rather live in a benign democratic socialist state (like e.g. Sweden or the Netherlands) than a raving authoritarian one, (like say Indonesia or China ) for sure.
However its a trick question, because true communism has never been implemented, in the sense envisaged by Karl Marx.
In practice few states are absolute extremes: most like the UK are hybrid compromises.
I am astounded by recent & remote historical evidence of every bad thing: socialism / communism / fascism / totalitarianism w/ even real time examples like Cuba or Venezuela & yet the geniuses in charge hubristically believe they’ve never worked because THEY were not in charge & utopia will work under their enlightened & so much smarter “leadership”.
They don’t want to learn because power & control are all that matter. Nothing about doing good for humanity & flourishing
I'm not sure why you call Communism in Cuba a bad thing, when a revolution was needed to topple the corrupt dictatorship - who else was able to lead a revolution if not revolutionaries? Little girls with flowers? Well , we saw what happened to them in Iran recently - peaceful revolutions rarely shifts an absolutist and totalitarian government, armed insurrection is often the only way.
Undoubtedly the implacable hostility of the USA/C IA to the Castro regime did not help the regime become more liberal and tolerant over time.
You think communism anywhere is a good thing? Certainly for those in control it is. Average citizenry, not much
I'd rather live in a benign democratic socialist state (like e.g. Sweden or the Netherlands) than a raving authoritarian one, (like say Indonesia or China ) for sure.
However its a trick question, because true communism has never been implemented, in the sense envisaged by Karl Marx.
In practice few states are absolute extremes: most like the UK are hybrid compromises.