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The adoption of communism in Russia and China alone led to the largest improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty in human history. If Cuba never had a revolution then living conditions for the working class there would certainly be much worse than they are today. Western anti-communists tend to be part of the labor aristocracy or petite bourgeoisie. For those classes, improvement in material conditions for the poor, oppressed, and working classes is entirely irrelevant. They only care about how their own classes were impacted because fundamentally they think they are the only people that matter. And for them, they only see a lack of consumer choices and not being able to live in a level of personal wealth that lets them feel like they're better than most. In fact, they see poverty reduction as a bad thing as those resources could have instead been used on themselves.
The adoption of communism in Russia and China alone led to the largest improvement in quality of life and reduction of poverty in human history. If Cuba never had a revolution then living conditions for the working class there would certainly be much worse than they are today. Western anti-communists tend to be part of the labor aristocracy or petite bourgeoisie. For those classes, improvement in material conditions for the poor, oppressed, and working classes is entirely irrelevant. They only care about how their own classes were impacted because fundamentally they think they are the only people that matter. And for them, they only see a lack of consumer choices and not being able to live in a level of personal wealth that lets them feel like they're better than most. In fact, they see poverty reduction as a bad thing as those resources could have instead been used on themselves.