05-31-2017, 04:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2017, 05:08 AM by FireIceTalon.)
China and Cuba are open to interpretation (even Marxists have disagreements with one another on what they were, as well as what they have become). However, The Soviet assistance of Cuba isn't really relevant though to my larger point regarding capitalism or socialism, since the revolutionary countries will tend to stand in solidarity with one another regardless (at least in theory). It doesn't seem logical to have expected the Soviets to do otherwise any more than the USA's 'Marshall Plan" to aid Western Europe following WW2. Socialism is, after all, an intermediary stage between capitalism and communism - it isn't the end goal and it's a period when the working class must defend itself from reaction. Also, Cuba had the largest imperialist and capitalist super-powers right in its backyard, the same country that imposed an economic embargo on it that did far more to harm the Cuban people than it did to defeat 'socialism'. The bottomline is, the proletariat will always struggle and fight for its rightful ownership of the means of production and its self-determination so long as capitalism exists. The US empire learned this the hard way from the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion when the Cuban people firmly said NO to capitalism and imperialism.
Everything else in my previous post objectively describes capitalisms operations, in material reality. And you know this, in your heart of hearts, regardless of whatever capitalist propaganda/apologism you wish conjure up in your next reply to me.
Everything else in my previous post objectively describes capitalisms operations, in material reality. And you know this, in your heart of hearts, regardless of whatever capitalist propaganda/apologism you wish conjure up in your next reply to me.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)