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Someone I use to know was the "socialism has never worked" type of Liberal and constantly pointed to Cuba as an example of its failure.
No wonder having a large, imperialist global hegemony parked right next to you constantly chocking you at the neck is going to cause some hardship.
But it seems people will not grasp this simple fact.
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Yeah no shit, funny how they gloss over success stories like NK and China or say that's not "real" socialism or some bs. Not like I'm saying Cuba failed, mind you, but like you said the usa is a wild dog always attacking them.
Cuba's been an overwhelming success story, managing better than comparable capitalist states in the periphery despite being strangled and undermined by the US at every turn. Like it's an object example of how it's better to pursue a socialist path despite the threat of the US than it is to let US-aligned compradors take power, since all surrendering to the US does is make the subjugating violence easier and cheaper while also ensuring that all the institutions are arrayed against the public good and all the wealth generated within the state is extracted to feed the US.
And of course the manifest failure of hyperexploited capitalist states in the periphery then gets turned into a racist justification for American hegemony by the same people who say that "socialism failed", who paint the corruption and violence of states ruled by compradors and terrorized by CIA trained/armed paramilitary groups as some innate "oh those poor little backwards peoples, they're just not ready for civilization yet and we should do more to rein them in" state of being instead of something that's been actively imposed on them by the US.
Their retort to this is, "Heh if the system was so great then they'd not have an issue :smuglord: and also it's not true they trade with countries. Checkmate gommulist :smuglord:
Communism is when no sovereignty