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    1 year ago

    “Communism” hasn’t existed yet. Socialism has, and it’s great. Cuba for example has free healthcare, no homelessness or starvation, and enough free high level education to provide Italy with doctors during the pandemic.

    Not to mention one of the most open democracies in the world. It has an unusually high percentage of women in the government compared to the rest of the world thanks to that; 53.22% now (U.S has 29.0%), and better LGBT rights than the US nowadays

    All while the world’s current top superpower is right beside them, sees them as an enemy, and has a still ongoing embargo on them for 60 years now to prevent them from trading with other countries. That’ll hopefully change once China’s Belt and Road Initiative is complete though.

    Imagine what it could do without the US embargo with those massive advantages. Precisely why the embargo is there in the first place.

    Clearly this model works. It does require expelling landleeches, plantation owners and billionaires if they don’t hand over the means of production to the workers (like Cuba did after the revolution), but I don’t think most people would mind that.