As would people from any other country if it meant automatic residency and job placement assistance. What is remarkable is how few people came on boats in the 2000s when Cuba was much wealthier and freer than it is now.
Blame everything except communism. It must be in the manual.The deterioration of respect for human rights I Cuba has gone hand in hand with the reintroduction of capitalism, which the repression of the masses is intended to effect.
Cuba pushes through sweeping free-market reforms in biggest economic shift since the revolution
The 176 measures aim to further decentralize Cuba’s state-run economy, which has been left gasping by a tightened embargo under President Donald Trump.www.nbcnews.com
The billionaires’ thralls exaggerated repression in Cuba to punish that country for putting the interest of working people and the oppressed ahead of the billionaires’. Yes, Cuba from the beginning was saddled with a semi-Stalinist bureaucratic dictatorship that emulated the USSR and China and drew strength from the imperialists’ Cold War against Cuba and the repression attendant to defending against it, but Cuba went through multiple deliberate government-driven campaigns of democratization in an effort to combat the dictatorial tendencies of this bureaucracy, and for decades had a far better human rights record than the U.S.-backed capitalist regimes in for example Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic.Blame everything except communism. It must be in the manual.
The problem for you is that it simply isn't true. The repression began under Fidel Catro - communist:
Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression
...“As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”...
Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression
During his nearly five decades of rule in Cuba, Fidel Castro built a repressive system that punished virtually all forms of dissent, a dark legacy that lives on even after his death. As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to...www.hrw.org
If Cuba is your best example of communist benevolence, then you really have nothing.That should be obvious to you.
Is it your plan to make more excuses for that horrible system, and try to explain away history?
Syphilitic dementia.
The war between the working class and the billionaire exploiters is an international one. One of the specific national forms it takes is the socialist revolution led by the workers, and the counterrevolution, organized through the counterrevolutionary workers’ state and reflecting the special interests of the labor aristocracy and labor bureaucracy, that aims to limit and ultimately reverse that revolution.
That just isn’t true. Life expectancy rose in every country that became socialist, and fell in every country reverting to capitalism other than China. Capitalism gave the world Auschwitz, the firebombing of Tokyo, and 11 million annual preventable deaths from starvation.
In 1978, China began a long-term retreat from socialism labeled “Reform and Opening Up,” culminating with the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a decisive political victory of the capitalist class over the workers marking the return to capitalism (with remnant pockets of socialism.) Thus, today 70% of wealth in China is privately owned, and private enterprise is responsible for 60% of GDP. It was in this context that the standard 48-hour workweek under Mao gave rise to the 72-hour workweek insisted on by many private employers. Although this 72-hour workweek was explicitly ruled illegal by the Chinese Supreme Court in 2021, the counterrevolution has led to a weakening of the left-wing elements in the unions and state, leaving effective enforcement of the current (as of 1995) 40-hour week and 3-hour daily/36-hour monthly cap on overtime lacking, especially against the American- and Japanese-owned businesses that are the worst offenders.Yes, the factory workers in communist China live rich and abundant lives.
Factory workers in China often face 12–16 hour shifts, six days a week, with overtime pay sometimes as low as 55 cents per hour...While some modern factories (like the one in Guangdong) have ergonomic workstations, proper lighting, and good safety measures Reddit, many older plants use outdated equipment, leading to injuries from overheated machinery, caustic chemicals, and repetitive strain Woman - The Nest. Workers may lose limbs or suffer blisters, rashes, and bruises, and access to medical care is limited — many rely on the underfunded national healthcare system
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Cuba’s wages remain among the lowest in the world, with the official minimum wage at 2,100 Cuban pesos (CUP) per month since January 2021, equivalent to about $5 USD at the official exchange rate but only $0.03 USD at the informal market rat
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Try another lie. This is fun.
Both countries are communist.
Workers in the U.S. are much more likely to be incarcerated. Anyway, why are you comparing them to the richest country in the world, which uses the profits from superexploitation of the colonies and semicolonial world to cushion the effects of capitalism on its workers, and not to those same countries before their revolutions, or to countries like India and Haiti which had higher standards of living before continuing on the capitalist path?Both countries are communist.
In both countries, their workers do far worse than workers in the USA.
You can continue to make excuses for your inferior system if you like, but those facts won't go away.
Communism is inferior in every way imaginable. And you know, that's why you stay here.
The good news is you'll never live one second of your life under communist oppression. You'll stay here, enjoy all the benefits of the superior capitalist system, and whine about it.
That's the plan, no?
Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
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It is true that the U.S. has historically offered greater scope for democracy than many other countries, due to the long history of fights against the capitalist government led by the plebeian masses, the leftist stamp they put on its founding revolutions, and the extent to which the hoarded wealth gained from superexploitation of the colonial and semicolonial world created a population with more modest demands while allowing elasticity for strategically timed concessions. But the burgeoning dictatorship associated with Trumpism suggests that such is no longer the case.
It is also the case that people had more rights in the socialist German Democratic Republic than under Hitler’s capitalist regime, far more in Cuba than under the Somozas, Duarte, Duvalier, etc., more under Ho Chi Minh than under the successive South Vietnamese dictatorships, etc. Furthermore, when Chile attempted to build socialism through democratic elections and scrupulous observance of civil rights, the capitalists (through the U.S. government) organized a fascist coup that killed their leader and brought untold misery to their people, and when Nicaragua attempted to do the same, the capitalists (again through the U.S. government) organized a relentless terrorist war on its people that would not cease until their candidate … who restricted civil rights … was in power. This is what I mean when I say the growth in a workers’ state of a dictatorship that the enemies of socialism can use to undermine it reflects the external pressure of the capitalists.
Believe what? That this country could be improved?
What country came under communist or even pseudo-communist leadership and did not become freer and more democratic?
