• beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Cuba has more doctors per sq. inch than another country in NA. Everybody in Cuba is highly educated despite it being a place where not the smartest people vacation to. Only reason Cuba is not an economic power house is because of the embargo that’s been going on for 50 years.

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      10 days ago

      “How many left countries do I need to destroy to show you that it does not work?” - Every US intelligence agency, probably

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      10 days ago

      indeed. the biggest reason socialism fails is because capitalists keep kneecaping it, not because its a flawed system.

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        10 days ago

        The narrative that socialism has always failed is also wrong, too. Cuba is doing far better than they would have for its people had it remained a sugar colony. China is quickly advancing to the top of the world stage. Socialism does work, despite siege, even if it would do better without it.

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      10 days ago

      Ok, but Guevara got kicked out of Cuba because all he wanted was war. He was also a bastard to his own troops.

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        10 days ago

        No, he left (and abdicated all of his own titles and citizenship) to go fight against imperialism in the Congo.

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          9 days ago

          Not actual history, but believe what you want. You don’t always want military revolutionaries running a country after revolution. See Stalin.