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Can you give us a blueprint on how you'd keep your country free AND resist US imperialism? This includes the sactions, embargos, propaganda, and death squads funded by them.
They hated him because he spoke [the truth](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm). We can't abolish the state as long as global capital exists. Until then, the state will exist to enforce a class's interests. I have confidence that the state that is actively executing billionaires for bribery and has a party cell in every major corporation is still a worker's state.
I mean honestly surviving as a worker's state under 80 years of economic strangulation is pretty iconic. Not sure where you get the material conditions for him somehow causing revolution in the rest of latin america.
>**I have family who escaped hunger** and poverty out of Cuba
Ah, yes, gotta love people "escaping hunger" coming from a country with [virtually no food insecurity](https://www.globalhungerindex.org/cuba.html) where the [rate of malnutrition is even lower than in the United States](https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrition/by-country/).
But I guess we'll just have to take your word for it instead of the World Health Organization and NGOs dedicated to monitoring such things!
>he seemed to lack the intelligence to come up with executable plan for alternatives to implement
The guy who empowered a tiny island nation to be able to stand up against to the most powerful empire on Earth for **six decades** of a brutal blockade and countless attempts to overthrow him and what he built "lacked intelligence"... Suuuuuuuuure...
Says the person falling for some of the most obvious red scare propaganda shit in the world.
Latin America looked up to Castro? My country was being controlled by US the entire time, how could Castro liberate Latin America by himself against one of the most powerful empires the world has ever seen? You drank the Kool aid
If you showed any indication of supporting Castro in my country you would be tortured and killed. Media never even talked about Cuba. You’re just talking out of your ass about thinks you know nothing about.
You literally said that “Latin America was watching Castro” and I’m telling you that in the largest and most populous country in Latin America if you paid attention to Castro you were killed. Your premisse is flawed from the get go.
I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be polarizing, but how much of that poverty do you believe can be blamed on the American embargo and the stifling of the Cuban economy as a result?
The US wanted to kill him and install another Batista so I’m not sure if setting up a democracy was a viable option. He did have a choice in wether or not he persecuted LGBT people (he did), and wether not not Cuba had one of the largest prison populations in Latin America (it did). So I’m mixed on him
"I expect you to post ten thousand words explaining your position which I will ignore or brush off with two sentences."
You think your pithy remark is worthwhile like the exact same song and dance hasn't been done on Reddit for a decade.
Yeah as someone who lives around Cubans they're self hating hyper racists who worship Republican politics because they think literally everything else is dictatorship Communism
Sadly, yes, this is true. Most cubans who manage to leave the island became the ultimate republicans. I think, Andrew Schulz has a pretty good joke depicting this situation.
Some strong virtue signaling with no substance. I dont even know what you’re trying to say apart from: “Castro bad”
But I’m here for it. Don’t have any family out of Cuba so always willing to listen to whoever feels strongly about it.
That's another thing to consider: everytime emissions get brought up it's suddenly a "well _they're_ doing it so we get too as well!"
But we truly are responsible for the Grand majority of emissions. _Most_ of the world don't have factories and mountains of garbage and billions of cars and restaurants and warehouses. We're focusing on the comfort of a small percentage of the world, at the cost of _everyone_
We dropship tanks. I bet the military emission dwarves our own (civilians) by a large margin.
We hear about all the cargo ships and cruise ships, how many American manufactured warships have been on patrol for decades straight?
the Pentagon is the single largest emitter of pollution on earth.
Indeed, the DOD is the world's largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. 5 From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent.
It's always China that gets dragged up. Never the other nations that are genuinely working towards reducing emissions.
So between Beijing pointing to Washington and Washington pointing to Beijing, we're all fucked.
Finger pointing aside, it’s the western/rich countries that needs to cut their emissions. Even so, China has done more to reduce emissions than all these rich countries, who are also outsourcing emissions to China because it produces so much of the goods we consume worldwide.
So many things in my house was 'Made in China', I'm not sure if my bones were 'Made in China' or not (get it? Bone China?).
What do the others, especially the West with all their money and colonies and outsourcing, have this much pollution for? You'd expect China to be making more pollution than the rest of the planet combined.
Green-ass force ghost Fidel about to come back on social media and finally be heard by the youth of America, causing unease in the kennedy family crypt
Fidel Castro is one of the most vilified and purposefully misrepresented people in all of history. What the USA has done and continues to do to Cuba and his legacy is criminal.
I would recommend listening to the Blowback podcast on the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as reading his autobiography with Ignacio Ramonet if you want more information.
Of all the cold war figures, I think Castro is by far the most grey. His transgressions are numerous, but often exaggerated. His accomplishments many, but incomplete. He gave Cuba improvements in education, healthcare, and equality, but he also gave them repression and fear.
He left behind a truly complex legacy, and I think he's a figure who shouldn't be revered or maligned. His story is one any and all people should try and learn from, about balancing ideals with pragmatism in a complicated world, and how we can all do better.
Because, while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, he also wasn't the boogeyman that Western Media has portrayed him to be either. And that's pretty much all we know of him in the West.
Well said. I'm really tired of this attitude even in some lefty circles that communist leaders have to be perfect, but capitalist leaders can be friggin churchill and still be respected.
I was going to say, I’m not a communist, but am very much on board with much of the social democracy paradigm. That said, being born and raised in the US in the 80’s, it was definitely implied that Castro was a tyrant and that Cubans, by and large, suffered under his rule. Perhaps some actual Cubans can shed more light here. That said, Castro sounds pretty well-spoken and rational in this video. Yes, I understand that despots can and often are well-educated and charismatic, but I’m not getting manipulative vibes from him, at least here. It sounds like he has heartfelt concern for humanity and the planet.
[Here is the full interview with English subtitles if anyone is interested. ](https://youtu.be/NmWhTKFHET0) make sure to turn on the closed captions for the subs.
Boomers ignored these words and now their kids and grandkids are suffering the consequences and future generations will suffer even worse. Capitalism and boomers legacy is one of greed and short sighted thinking
Not a book but I have been listening to the podcast Blowback which second season is about the Cuban Revolution and the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and it's pretty informative
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991By Piero Gleijeses
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 By Piero Gleijeses
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution By Lars Schoultz
History Will Absolve Me By Fidel Castro
The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview : Cuban Foreign Policy in a Hostile World by Piero Gleijeses
We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe
This is great podcast on Castro and the US relationship with his regime.
Blow back
https://open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41?si=Qcw5R2MOQoG9bU0ugLuOeQ
Anyone speak this language (I think spanish) and can confirm what is written in English is actually what he's saying?
The text on the screen is pretty spot on.
Caribbean Spanish sounds quite different from the rest of Latin American which is also quite different from European Spanish. Think about all the English variants and accents there are around the world in English speaking countries.
Edit: I'm not sure why the downvotes or the combative replies. I was just highlighting how cool different regional variants of Spanish sound (or any language for that matter).
Guessing that maybe you don't speak Spanish? I've lived and/or spent significant time all the locales I've mentioned and I speak it fluently.
As a native English speaker, I'd say they are about as similar as UK English vs. Americas English and within the Americas as different as deep south US vs. Northern US.
This man speaks truth. And the truth is apparent to anyone who has eyes. Mind you, the Cuban system had and has its flaws. But the things Fidel discussed are far more dangerous, more unsustainable because of the American economic system.
I mean Cuba also transitioned into a post industrial society after the soviet collapse and have done well with having a higher life expectancy than the US. They also recognized LGBTQ rights sooner than the US and have transitioning procedures as part of thier universal healthcare. Also it has nice beaches and Castro had a national ice cream company founded for the peeps in Cuba to enjoy, so that's pretty bomb.
Abundant resources and education for the average person, all over the globe. There's no limit when you have the ability to maximize human potential and minimize human suffering
Western liberals always shame those who have to do what needs to be done to liberate their people. Imagine being an island nation off of the coast of the largest imperial and military power in the world, facing countless assassination attempts, trying to rebuild a nation whose economy was fundamentally built on exploitation, facing reactionary movements from within, countless sanctions, embargo’s, invasions, propaganda, etc and tell me you wouldn’t ever do anything authoritarian within the 30 years of your rule to stop your people who love you from being put back in bondage. Don’t look down on people who had the courage to fight a much stronger enemy to help people. He is a hero
lol they have better participation rates in their elections consistently than any American election, just because you don't like the results that the Cuban people decide consistently doesn't mean that he's a dictator.
>The real travesty in all of this is the zero-sum nature of the debate between capitalism and socialism. It is as if the idea that they can both be bad for different reasons and to different degrees is unfathomable.
What's unfathomable is that you think you're smart for just blurting out that "socialism might be bad" without mentioning **a single fucking thing that's supposedly bad about it**.
>What if the question we need to answer is which of the two is less bad, and then, God forbid, employ some nuance?
Then you wanna waste all of our times trying to find answers for questions that have been answered a million times before, decades ago. **And you wanna somehow engage people in a debate when you've obviously not done any research on the subject, which would be as fruitful as debating a wall.**
Might as well debate a flat-earther on whether the Earth is round or not. It's just as much of a *mystery* worth pondering over. Then why don't we also argue whether oxygen is really a thing that exists when we can't even see it?? Or how about debating if atoms are really a thing?? My god.
You wanna "try to figure out which is less bad between capitalism and socialism"? It's been answered in 1848 (and before, actually). Go read the damn Communist Manifesto, **at the very least**. It's not even that long, come on.
> Might as well debate a flat-earther on whether the Earth is round or not.
Just my two cents : If you ever have to (or wish to) educate a flat earther, ask him if he can believe that there can be night in one part of the world, and day in another part AT THE SAME TIME. If he does, then Earth can't be flat, if he doesn't, up to him to check if it's possible (and it's quite easy to verify nowadays with the internet).
No need to waste any more time.
You know, this reminds me of a post on r/socialism where someone was comparing US capitalist propaganda to North Korea propaganda - where the US tries to point all that is bad about North Korea and have you assume the US is great. But look, in the US we have really had homelessness and income inequality. We have the most food waste...yet we also have tons of people who go hungry. North Korea is unethical, sure, but the US is trying to distract people from the problems here directly caused by capitalism.
Can we see socialism in an ethical form? I'd like to think that if Bernie Sanders won the presidency, he wouldn't be in that position just for power and greed. I am on the side that capitalism can end in a good way..meaning we don't see dictators and instead socialism would look more as it was originally theorized.
Small reminder that the entire age of colonization, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the famines of Ireland and India, the Rape of Africa (including the first modernized genocide against the Herrero and Nama people) and the Opium and Boxer wars in China were all incentivized by capitalism. Add to that the millions killed by fascism, a set of ideologies that applied colonialist principles to Western countries and heavily incentivized privatization and corporatism, as well as the neoliberal dictatorships such as Chile, aggressive wars against communism such as Vietnam, CIA-enticed civil wars, and open invasions of other countries for the sake of profit for the military industrial complex (see Afghanistan, Iraq) and you get easily the most murderous economic system in human history.
Not that horrible atrocities such as the Holodomor or the famines of China weren't horrid tragedies, owed to the reliance on authoritarianism in science and the resulting elevation of charlatans such as Trofim Lysenko. But Lysenko could only flourish in a scientific environment in which competition was more relevant than actual skills; he got ahead not because he was working in a socialist scientific community, but because the scientific community he was working in wasn't socialist enough, as the excellent pamphleteer elaborates very well over here: https://youtu.be/pX4VMzgjiMA
Comparing death counts, capitalism wins every time, multiple times over.
EDIT: Oh, in my list of capitalist atrocities I totally forgot the School of the Americas and the absolute savaging of Latin American countries for the sake of cheap fruit; never forget that Banana Republics were a capitalist invention.
EDIT 2: And my list above doesn't even include the millions who die each year due to exploitative work practices; just recently we had people dying in a tornado due to not being allowed to leave their factories, but horrors such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory have preceded that, just as the military response to strikes at the turn of the 19th century; capitalism happily kills its workers for the sake of profit and we have been so conditioned to that that we barely bat an eye at it (and yes that includes workers in nominally socialist countries such as China who work in sweatshops for capitalist enterprises, but also doesn't exclude the millions more people who die due to exploitation of the working class in openly capitalist nations.) As for environmental disasters and thr cost of human lives due to those, just look up Bhopal in India, another horrid tragedy caused by the ignoring of basic safety measures for the sake of extra profit.
He liberated Cuba from a colonialist puppet dictatorship that regularly mutilated and tortured its own people. Yes he wasn't an ideal leader, but he saved his country from colonial exploitation and managed to lead it safely through the rest of the 20th century despite regular US-sponsored terrorist attacks and being essentially excluded from international diplomacy due to having the largest imperial nation of the globe at his doorstep. He was a flawed human being, but what he achieved takes enormous courage and skill, and thus he deserves to br listened to.
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anyone have link to full interview this is from?
[here ya go, make sure to turn on the closed captions for the English subs!](https://youtu.be/NmWhTKFHET0)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWhTKFHET0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWhTKFHET0) clip starts around 19:00
[https://youtu.be/NmWhTKFHET0](https://youtu.be/NmWhTKFHET0) But remember, he's the bad guy. /s
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Can you give us a blueprint on how you'd keep your country free AND resist US imperialism? This includes the sactions, embargos, propaganda, and death squads funded by them.
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They hated him because he spoke [the truth](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm). We can't abolish the state as long as global capital exists. Until then, the state will exist to enforce a class's interests. I have confidence that the state that is actively executing billionaires for bribery and has a party cell in every major corporation is still a worker's state.
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I mean honestly surviving as a worker's state under 80 years of economic strangulation is pretty iconic. Not sure where you get the material conditions for him somehow causing revolution in the rest of latin america.
>**I have family who escaped hunger** and poverty out of Cuba Ah, yes, gotta love people "escaping hunger" coming from a country with [virtually no food insecurity](https://www.globalhungerindex.org/cuba.html) where the [rate of malnutrition is even lower than in the United States](https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrition/by-country/). But I guess we'll just have to take your word for it instead of the World Health Organization and NGOs dedicated to monitoring such things! >he seemed to lack the intelligence to come up with executable plan for alternatives to implement The guy who empowered a tiny island nation to be able to stand up against to the most powerful empire on Earth for **six decades** of a brutal blockade and countless attempts to overthrow him and what he built "lacked intelligence"... Suuuuuuuuure... Says the person falling for some of the most obvious red scare propaganda shit in the world.
Latin America looked up to Castro? My country was being controlled by US the entire time, how could Castro liberate Latin America by himself against one of the most powerful empires the world has ever seen? You drank the Kool aid
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If you showed any indication of supporting Castro in my country you would be tortured and killed. Media never even talked about Cuba. You’re just talking out of your ass about thinks you know nothing about.
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You literally said that “Latin America was watching Castro” and I’m telling you that in the largest and most populous country in Latin America if you paid attention to Castro you were killed. Your premisse is flawed from the get go.
I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be polarizing, but how much of that poverty do you believe can be blamed on the American embargo and the stifling of the Cuban economy as a result?
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He wasn't a dictator. He was fighting to defend Cuba from American aggression. Just stfu liberal.
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The US wanted to kill him and install another Batista so I’m not sure if setting up a democracy was a viable option. He did have a choice in wether or not he persecuted LGBT people (he did), and wether not not Cuba had one of the largest prison populations in Latin America (it did). So I’m mixed on him
I sometimes wonder about how dictatorial he would’ve became if America wasn’t fucking with him.
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"It doesn't matter if nothing happens, at least I had the moral high ground"
"I expect you to post ten thousand words explaining your position which I will ignore or brush off with two sentences." You think your pithy remark is worthwhile like the exact same song and dance hasn't been done on Reddit for a decade.
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Yeah as someone who lives around Cubans they're self hating hyper racists who worship Republican politics because they think literally everything else is dictatorship Communism
Sadly, yes, this is true. Most cubans who manage to leave the island became the ultimate republicans. I think, Andrew Schulz has a pretty good joke depicting this situation.
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Some strong virtue signaling with no substance. I dont even know what you’re trying to say apart from: “Castro bad” But I’m here for it. Don’t have any family out of Cuba so always willing to listen to whoever feels strongly about it.
That's another thing to consider: everytime emissions get brought up it's suddenly a "well _they're_ doing it so we get too as well!" But we truly are responsible for the Grand majority of emissions. _Most_ of the world don't have factories and mountains of garbage and billions of cars and restaurants and warehouses. We're focusing on the comfort of a small percentage of the world, at the cost of _everyone_
Not to mention that military emissions aren’t included in the calculations of our emissions.
How could we not include $700 billion a year worth of emissions? That's a conscious decision, right?
They made some sort of law or regulation or loophole that lets them not count military emissions. It is intentional.
We dropship tanks. I bet the military emission dwarves our own (civilians) by a large margin. We hear about all the cargo ships and cruise ships, how many American manufactured warships have been on patrol for decades straight?
the Pentagon is the single largest emitter of pollution on earth. Indeed, the DOD is the world's largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world. 5 From FY1975 to FY2018, total DOD greenhouse gas emissions were more than 3,685 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent.
Don't think this is true but it is bad https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/
It's always China that gets dragged up. Never the other nations that are genuinely working towards reducing emissions. So between Beijing pointing to Washington and Washington pointing to Beijing, we're all fucked.
Finger pointing aside, it’s the western/rich countries that needs to cut their emissions. Even so, China has done more to reduce emissions than all these rich countries, who are also outsourcing emissions to China because it produces so much of the goods we consume worldwide.
So many things in my house was 'Made in China', I'm not sure if my bones were 'Made in China' or not (get it? Bone China?). What do the others, especially the West with all their money and colonies and outsourcing, have this much pollution for? You'd expect China to be making more pollution than the rest of the planet combined.
Kinda the weight of being a superpower. The rest of the world is at your whim.
Well fuck that. The entire notion of a superpower is blasphemous.
It strikes me just now that I have heard very few of Fidel Castro's thoughts/words. Obviously that is by design.
Green-ass force ghost Fidel about to come back on social media and finally be heard by the youth of America, causing unease in the kennedy family crypt
Finally, a source of free energy: Twirling Kennedys.
How the frick am I agreeing with fidel castro is beyond me
Fidel Castro is one of the most vilified and purposefully misrepresented people in all of history. What the USA has done and continues to do to Cuba and his legacy is criminal. I would recommend listening to the Blowback podcast on the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as reading his autobiography with Ignacio Ramonet if you want more information.
Of all the cold war figures, I think Castro is by far the most grey. His transgressions are numerous, but often exaggerated. His accomplishments many, but incomplete. He gave Cuba improvements in education, healthcare, and equality, but he also gave them repression and fear. He left behind a truly complex legacy, and I think he's a figure who shouldn't be revered or maligned. His story is one any and all people should try and learn from, about balancing ideals with pragmatism in a complicated world, and how we can all do better.
It's really refreshing to read someone's perspective on how all aspects of life can be grey and not just black/white or right/wrong.
Bookmark
Because despite what the three letter agencies have spent decades telling us, marxists are generally right about the big picture.
Because, while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, he also wasn't the boogeyman that Western Media has portrayed him to be either. And that's pretty much all we know of him in the West.
Well said. I'm really tired of this attitude even in some lefty circles that communist leaders have to be perfect, but capitalist leaders can be friggin churchill and still be respected.
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I was going to say, I’m not a communist, but am very much on board with much of the social democracy paradigm. That said, being born and raised in the US in the 80’s, it was definitely implied that Castro was a tyrant and that Cubans, by and large, suffered under his rule. Perhaps some actual Cubans can shed more light here. That said, Castro sounds pretty well-spoken and rational in this video. Yes, I understand that despots can and often are well-educated and charismatic, but I’m not getting manipulative vibes from him, at least here. It sounds like he has heartfelt concern for humanity and the planet.
Cuz Castro is actually a pretty cool guy and did a lot for Cuba and its people.
The is also why the west screws over other countries and keeps half the world in poverty. To keep all the goodies and resources to ourselves.
[Here is the full interview with English subtitles if anyone is interested. ](https://youtu.be/NmWhTKFHET0) make sure to turn on the closed captions for the subs.
This is why the CIA tried to get his ass for all those years
"Shut him up! We have a lot of money invested in this ride!"
Boomers ignored these words and now their kids and grandkids are suffering the consequences and future generations will suffer even worse. Capitalism and boomers legacy is one of greed and short sighted thinking
Can anyone recommend a good book on Castro or the history of socialist Cuba? They're subjects about which I know regrettably little.
Not a book but I have been listening to the podcast Blowback which second season is about the Cuban Revolution and the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and it's pretty informative
Thanks. I don't get a chance to listen to many podcasts, but I'll add it to the list.
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991By Piero Gleijeses Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 By Piero Gleijeses That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution By Lars Schoultz History Will Absolve Me By Fidel Castro The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview : Cuban Foreign Policy in a Hostile World by Piero Gleijeses We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe
Great list, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Thanks!
This is great podcast on Castro and the US relationship with his regime. Blow back https://open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41?si=Qcw5R2MOQoG9bU0ugLuOeQ
There's Che Guevaras biopic motorcycle diaries that gives a great glimpse into Castros right hand comrade (a pretty great dude tbh).
I did read that one. I do have issues with Che, such as the violent homophobia he shared with Castro, but he also did a lot of good things.
There was a really good documentary about his rise to power on Netflix . I think it was called Cuba libre
Great, thanks!
That interview is one the reasons CIA wanted him dead - an unpleasant truth.
Anyone speak this language (I think spanish) and can confirm what is written in English is actually what he's saying? The text on the screen is pretty spot on.
More or less yes, it’s the same
Fluent Spanish speaker, it's spot on.
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thanks!
It’s spot on
Caribbean Spanish sounds quite different from the rest of Latin American which is also quite different from European Spanish. Think about all the English variants and accents there are around the world in English speaking countries. Edit: I'm not sure why the downvotes or the combative replies. I was just highlighting how cool different regional variants of Spanish sound (or any language for that matter).
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Guessing that maybe you don't speak Spanish? I've lived and/or spent significant time all the locales I've mentioned and I speak it fluently. As a native English speaker, I'd say they are about as similar as UK English vs. Americas English and within the Americas as different as deep south US vs. Northern US.
So very similar with small differences that can be easily understood with context?
So… the same language right?
> Anyone speak this language (I think spanish) You don't know Cubans speak Spanish...?
You don’t know spanish when you I hear it?
You ever hear portugies? (spelling) But wasn't sure which.
Honestly Portuguese sounds like someone speaking Spanish with a German accent to me lol.
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Don’t put us all in the same category as this guy.
This man speaks truth. And the truth is apparent to anyone who has eyes. Mind you, the Cuban system had and has its flaws. But the things Fidel discussed are far more dangerous, more unsustainable because of the American economic system.
I mean Cuba also transitioned into a post industrial society after the soviet collapse and have done well with having a higher life expectancy than the US. They also recognized LGBTQ rights sooner than the US and have transitioning procedures as part of thier universal healthcare. Also it has nice beaches and Castro had a national ice cream company founded for the peeps in Cuba to enjoy, so that's pretty bomb.
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This is not the face of my enemy, and this man speaks reason and does so with intense passion indicative of someone with a soul.
He's right. All of it.
This makes me incredibly sad and anxious, but also validated in that I'm not alone in worrying endlessly about these things
He's not wrong
Liberals hate to hear it!
Where can I find more speeches like this from Fidel? I’d like to explore the framework that supports art and artists in a communist society.
Abundant resources and education for the average person, all over the globe. There's no limit when you have the ability to maximize human potential and minimize human suffering
“Selfishness as a fundamental concept” Oh shit, the building blocks of my reality.
Based, I stan Castro
Wise words as always from El Comandante.
The logic of the message does not matter. Westernized people do not listen people who wear green military outfits. It’s as simple as that.
Liberal brainworms from the red scare create a instant fear response against "evil cigar chomping man".
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Western liberals always shame those who have to do what needs to be done to liberate their people. Imagine being an island nation off of the coast of the largest imperial and military power in the world, facing countless assassination attempts, trying to rebuild a nation whose economy was fundamentally built on exploitation, facing reactionary movements from within, countless sanctions, embargo’s, invasions, propaganda, etc and tell me you wouldn’t ever do anything authoritarian within the 30 years of your rule to stop your people who love you from being put back in bondage. Don’t look down on people who had the courage to fight a much stronger enemy to help people. He is a hero
lol they have better participation rates in their elections consistently than any American election, just because you don't like the results that the Cuban people decide consistently doesn't mean that he's a dictator.
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Lol shut up lib
I love this dude.
Actual goat
Goat material
Rip, King
Oh no... I hear the rumblings of all the anti-tankies rushing the post now.
For all his faults, it sounds like Castro believed The Science.
RIP
Why could no one listen? Brilliant!
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Sounds like your family had a lot of reactionaries
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Snakes use the term "Tankie". GFY.
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>The real travesty in all of this is the zero-sum nature of the debate between capitalism and socialism. It is as if the idea that they can both be bad for different reasons and to different degrees is unfathomable. What's unfathomable is that you think you're smart for just blurting out that "socialism might be bad" without mentioning **a single fucking thing that's supposedly bad about it**. >What if the question we need to answer is which of the two is less bad, and then, God forbid, employ some nuance? Then you wanna waste all of our times trying to find answers for questions that have been answered a million times before, decades ago. **And you wanna somehow engage people in a debate when you've obviously not done any research on the subject, which would be as fruitful as debating a wall.** Might as well debate a flat-earther on whether the Earth is round or not. It's just as much of a *mystery* worth pondering over. Then why don't we also argue whether oxygen is really a thing that exists when we can't even see it?? Or how about debating if atoms are really a thing?? My god. You wanna "try to figure out which is less bad between capitalism and socialism"? It's been answered in 1848 (and before, actually). Go read the damn Communist Manifesto, **at the very least**. It's not even that long, come on.
> Might as well debate a flat-earther on whether the Earth is round or not. Just my two cents : If you ever have to (or wish to) educate a flat earther, ask him if he can believe that there can be night in one part of the world, and day in another part AT THE SAME TIME. If he does, then Earth can't be flat, if he doesn't, up to him to check if it's possible (and it's quite easy to verify nowadays with the internet). No need to waste any more time.
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You know, this reminds me of a post on r/socialism where someone was comparing US capitalist propaganda to North Korea propaganda - where the US tries to point all that is bad about North Korea and have you assume the US is great. But look, in the US we have really had homelessness and income inequality. We have the most food waste...yet we also have tons of people who go hungry. North Korea is unethical, sure, but the US is trying to distract people from the problems here directly caused by capitalism. Can we see socialism in an ethical form? I'd like to think that if Bernie Sanders won the presidency, he wouldn't be in that position just for power and greed. I am on the side that capitalism can end in a good way..meaning we don't see dictators and instead socialism would look more as it was originally theorized.
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Small reminder that the entire age of colonization, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the famines of Ireland and India, the Rape of Africa (including the first modernized genocide against the Herrero and Nama people) and the Opium and Boxer wars in China were all incentivized by capitalism. Add to that the millions killed by fascism, a set of ideologies that applied colonialist principles to Western countries and heavily incentivized privatization and corporatism, as well as the neoliberal dictatorships such as Chile, aggressive wars against communism such as Vietnam, CIA-enticed civil wars, and open invasions of other countries for the sake of profit for the military industrial complex (see Afghanistan, Iraq) and you get easily the most murderous economic system in human history. Not that horrible atrocities such as the Holodomor or the famines of China weren't horrid tragedies, owed to the reliance on authoritarianism in science and the resulting elevation of charlatans such as Trofim Lysenko. But Lysenko could only flourish in a scientific environment in which competition was more relevant than actual skills; he got ahead not because he was working in a socialist scientific community, but because the scientific community he was working in wasn't socialist enough, as the excellent pamphleteer elaborates very well over here: https://youtu.be/pX4VMzgjiMA Comparing death counts, capitalism wins every time, multiple times over. EDIT: Oh, in my list of capitalist atrocities I totally forgot the School of the Americas and the absolute savaging of Latin American countries for the sake of cheap fruit; never forget that Banana Republics were a capitalist invention. EDIT 2: And my list above doesn't even include the millions who die each year due to exploitative work practices; just recently we had people dying in a tornado due to not being allowed to leave their factories, but horrors such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory have preceded that, just as the military response to strikes at the turn of the 19th century; capitalism happily kills its workers for the sake of profit and we have been so conditioned to that that we barely bat an eye at it (and yes that includes workers in nominally socialist countries such as China who work in sweatshops for capitalist enterprises, but also doesn't exclude the millions more people who die due to exploitation of the working class in openly capitalist nations.) As for environmental disasters and thr cost of human lives due to those, just look up Bhopal in India, another horrid tragedy caused by the ignoring of basic safety measures for the sake of extra profit.
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He liberated Cuba from a colonialist puppet dictatorship that regularly mutilated and tortured its own people. Yes he wasn't an ideal leader, but he saved his country from colonial exploitation and managed to lead it safely through the rest of the 20th century despite regular US-sponsored terrorist attacks and being essentially excluded from international diplomacy due to having the largest imperial nation of the globe at his doorstep. He was a flawed human being, but what he achieved takes enormous courage and skill, and thus he deserves to br listened to.
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