Cuba is basically what every state should aspire to be. If not for the incredible amounts of US sabotage, it would pretty much be the textbook successful communism in action that libs claim has never happened and could never happen. (and it's been pretty darn successful anyway.)
Oh for sure, but if you wax too poetic there are people who point out leftists romanticize "the little guy" and fail to acknowledge China's productive forces and poverty alleviation.
true. I also think Cuba has been in a good "rhythm" for a while, perhaps due to its smaller size. Like, it took time for Mao and Deng to essentially pave the way for Xi, who has in turn only really been able to stamp out corruption and get down to business, so to speak, the past 5 or 10 years or so.
China has made continuous progress, where I feel like Cuba moved very quickly to achieve universal literacy, medical care, food access, etc, and then has hit kind of a ceiling thanks to the US.
But I'm also probably oversimplifying. Plus, at the end of the day, it's ok for there to be more than one model for the development of socialism.
Cuba is basically what every state should aspire to be. If not for the incredible amounts of US sabotage, it would pretty much be the textbook successful communism in action that libs claim has never happened and could never happen. (and it's been pretty darn successful anyway.)
Oh for sure, but if you wax too poetic there are people who point out leftists romanticize "the little guy" and fail to acknowledge China's productive forces and poverty alleviation.
true. I also think Cuba has been in a good "rhythm" for a while, perhaps due to its smaller size. Like, it took time for Mao and Deng to essentially pave the way for Xi, who has in turn only really been able to stamp out corruption and get down to business, so to speak, the past 5 or 10 years or so.
China has made continuous progress, where I feel like Cuba moved very quickly to achieve universal literacy, medical care, food access, etc, and then has hit kind of a ceiling thanks to the US.
But I'm also probably oversimplifying. Plus, at the end of the day, it's ok for there to be more than one model for the development of socialism.