The people of Cuba are not free. I don't care what level of education they may or may not have, they are not free people.
The most basic tenent of Socialism is freedom.
Castro is a failure and holding him up to any standard other then that is self delusion.
What Castro did in Cuba is not Socialism. He may or may not have an understanding of Marx, that is besides the point. I am not looking for someone to take my freedoms aways just because they have good intensions.
We are not talkng about the criminality of America either. That is reserved for a library of literature.
Cuba is not a Socialist country. Socialism can not be achieved in one country alone. The Cuban government is a military dictatorship, The economy they set up has failed the people. It is not sustainable as the people there have turned into thieves and tricksters just to eck out a living.
This throwback to the "do your own thing" idea of freedom from the 1960s that became the individualism of the present, is what I am on about, Fidel. The place of the individual for some of "the left."
The phrase turned out to be quite prophetic, and its outcome, quite pathetic.