The amount of Americans who were trained to misunderstand and hate socialism based on reaganomics but yet want to be Russian is heavily astounding. Americans are the weirdest bullies of the world.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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What does modern Russia have to do with anything?
We do our best to ignore the countries that do have good social policy, or manufacture reasons that social policy doesn't work while ignoring the exact same problems mirrored in our capitalist system exacerbated by disparity.
The US definitely doesn't ignore countries like the PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, etc that are more rapidly and equitably developing than their peers, it wages active economic warfare if these countries don't play ball. The US Empire needs subjects, after all, so if countries don't bend the knee the US either saber rattles or sanctions them to oblivion.
accurate.
Cuba being so based, that it did not work.
Hasn't Cuba been crippled by US sanctions and libel for decades?
Yeah, but they've had a lot of success despite that.
Sadly yes, but it is still way ahead of most other (in some cases even imperial core) countries in certain metrics.
Irrelevant, if they didn't want to be embargoed so hard maybe they should have done a capitalism.
Given the fact that the strongest economic power in the world has been fucking with them for decades, and they still manage to keep up on things like life expectancy and education (at times even surpassing the US on the life expectancy), I'd say they're doing pretty well. And looking at neighboring countries with similar histories that aren't getting fucked by the US, but chose capitalism (or had it chosen for them in case of countries like Chile), I'd say Cuba's a pretty good argument in favor of socialism.
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