6 Jan 2024 10:05 am
Zeets2 » 05 Jan 2024, 10:35 am » wrote: ↑ Why don't you show us how well socialism has worked in these modern times?
Care to show us how well it's doing in Venezuela and Cuba?
Unfortunately, given the uninformative nature of the corporate media, most people do not understand the reality that, although Venezuela's revolution contains some aspects of Marxism, it is a Bolivarian revolution rather than a socialist revolution. Nonetheless, like Cuba's socialist revolution, Venezuela's revolution is one under siege by internal and external capitalist forces that, by design, have significantly hampered the Venezuelan revolution. U.S. and EU sanctions and domestic economic sabotage have devastated Venezuela's economy. So, of course, Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution isn't fairing well because that's what embargos, sanctions, and domestic economic sabotage are intended to do. They are war by other means. To understand that, one need only recall the order given to then-CIA Director Richard Helms by Richard Nixon to "Make the [Chilean] economy scream" following the election of Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende.
Per Cuba's socialist revolution, it has been disaffected by the U.S.'s sixty-two-year-old trade embargo, the Helms-Burton Act, and various EU sanctions, all designed to make the Cuban economy scream. And scream it has.
Throughout it all, though, the Cuban Revolution has taken the Cuban people from the second lowest standard of living in the Western hemisphere in 1959 to one of Latin America's highest living standards. Indeed, Cuba has lower rates of infant mortality, neonatal death, illiteracy, unemployment, and homelessness than the U.S. When compared head-to-head with Detroit, Michigan, Dayton, Ohio, Newark, New Jersey, and many other American cities, Cuba's standard of living is tremendously higher.
If Cuba had not been subjected to the devastating effects of economic warfare throughout the past sixty-two years, it would likely have one of the world's highest standards of living. And that is precisely why capitalist juggernauts such as the United States have waged war on Cuba since 1962: because the Cuban Revolution stands as a threat of a good example. Despite its economic warfare-induced limitations and hardships, Cuba has served and continues to serve as an inspiration to billions of people worldwide.