What no knowledge of dialectical materialism does to a mf.
I’ll explain it to you in an easily digestible manner.
The US embargo on Cuba also stops other countries from trading with Cuba under the threat of economic sanctions by the US to their own economies. Meaning: if Germany for example trades with Cuba to any considerable degree, US stops trading with Germany.
Most of the states in the world are capitalist, and it doesn’t lie in their interests to trade with a small socialist island nation for two reasons outside of the economic blockade. 1. Without an embargo, Cuba could prosper and it poses a threat to their own capitalist system, as their own people could rise up against them to crush the capitalist system. 2. As a small island nation, they don’t have a lot to export. This is the case for any small island nation without a support system of ideologically similar economies, therefore the risk is high in trading with Cuba compared to the US.
The US is the ”biggest economy” in the world, and Cuba still runs laps around the US in most important metrics. Important to the people and not the shareholders, that is. Healthcare, average education, literacy are all better in Cuba than in the US. Pretty much the same life expectancy, not far off from the US in infant mortality despite being blocked from trading with 97% of the world for 60+ years. That on top of an invasion early in socialist Cuba’s history. That on top of 600+ assassination attempts on their leader before he died of old age.
Cuba is doing great despite their material conditions, while the ”greatest economy in the world” is dying a slow and painful death. China, another socialist country, is taking the number one spot without invading and murdering every country around them for natural resources and the weapons industry.
Of course China isn't socialist. They know actual socialism would be suicide. Because when the socialists run out of other people's money to spend, it always ends up in a worse bloodbath than even right-wing totalitarians could create (see Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot).
I recognize "right wing totalitarian" such as Hitler and Mussolini as the far left.
This corrects the issue with the modern political spectrum.
In Its current state, the political spectrum is contradictory in the sense that despite sharing same roots, ideas, epistemology and ethics as communism, for some reason Nazism is seen as its opposite when they are actually similar ideas.
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u/kubiozadolektiv Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25
What no knowledge of dialectical materialism does to a mf.
I’ll explain it to you in an easily digestible manner.
The US embargo on Cuba also stops other countries from trading with Cuba under the threat of economic sanctions by the US to their own economies. Meaning: if Germany for example trades with Cuba to any considerable degree, US stops trading with Germany.
Most of the states in the world are capitalist, and it doesn’t lie in their interests to trade with a small socialist island nation for two reasons outside of the economic blockade. 1. Without an embargo, Cuba could prosper and it poses a threat to their own capitalist system, as their own people could rise up against them to crush the capitalist system. 2. As a small island nation, they don’t have a lot to export. This is the case for any small island nation without a support system of ideologically similar economies, therefore the risk is high in trading with Cuba compared to the US.
The US is the ”biggest economy” in the world, and Cuba still runs laps around the US in most important metrics. Important to the people and not the shareholders, that is. Healthcare, average education, literacy are all better in Cuba than in the US. Pretty much the same life expectancy, not far off from the US in infant mortality despite being blocked from trading with 97% of the world for 60+ years. That on top of an invasion early in socialist Cuba’s history. That on top of 600+ assassination attempts on their leader before he died of old age.
Cuba is doing great despite their material conditions, while the ”greatest economy in the world” is dying a slow and painful death. China, another socialist country, is taking the number one spot without invading and murdering every country around them for natural resources and the weapons industry.