Saturday, July 17, 2021

ANALYSIS/OPINION_ Cuba tried communism. It failed again

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Cuba tried communism. It failed again

All socialist paradises over the past 100 years have ended in mass graves, hunger and repression


Castro and Forever Red Cuba Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times more >


By Dean Karayanis - - Saturday, July 17, 2021

ANALYSIS/OPINION:



The USSR. Venezuela. Now Cuba. All were held up as Marxist utopias, as was Hitler’s National Socialist regime and former Socialist Party leader Benito Mussolini’s fascism. But when things go wrong, as they always do, apologists treat us to the same absurd claim: “Real communism has never been tried.” In the words of Sting, “It’s a lie we don’t believe anymore,” except too many supposedly smart people do.

America’s foremost socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), insists the U.S. embargo caused the Cuban people to revolt over COVID-19. Never mind that the embargo doesn’t block medical supplies, or that protestors are waving the Stars & Stripes, not the hammer and sickle. Bernie’s go-to move is blaming America, just as he did when Venezuela and Nicaragua imploded. The last time we saw someone spinning this furiously, Superman was reversing the earth’s rotation to save Lois Lane.

Clay Travis (co-host of my daytime gig, “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show”) recently broke down the problem, citing a Wall Street Journal editorial. “[O]ne of the ways that Cuba funds its government right now is by sending its doctors and nurses overseas,” Travis said, “getting compensated in their real dollar value, taking all of that money themselves, and then paying those doctors and nurses a fraction.”

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