Another Success of Socialism!

[Freiheit]

Cuba is not a socialist country. It's an authoratarian dictatorship. There are no open or fair elections in Cuba and there haven't been fair and open elections since Castro came to power. The fact that the so-called "communist" leaders are billionaires shows that the economy is neither socialist nor communist. Any country where a class of people is allowed to accumulate more than their "needs", isn't communism. And any country where the ruling class of people accumulates great wealth, while infrastructure crumbles and poverty is rampant, isn't socialist.

Cuba is an authoritarian communist country. All communist countries were authoritarian.

It doesn't matter if the communist countries didn't devolve into some pure socialist paradise that checked all the boxes as articulated by Marx. People are people, not automatrons idealized by philosophers.

What matters is the primary order of organization that best resembles the ideals of the ideology.

And in that, communism was tried and failed. It should be relegated to the dustbins of history as a failed socioeconomic experiment.

A country cannot be authoritarian and communist at the same time. Communism is the antithesis of authoritarianism. Attempts at communism quickly devolved into authoritarianism in China, Russia and Cuba. Labelling a country "communist" or "socialist" is often a misnomer, and certainly authoritarianism and communism cannot exist within the same government. The moment there is an authoritarian elite, it defeats the whole premise of communism.

There are left wing authoritarians who provide for their people to keep popular support (the old "bread and circuses" of Roman times"), especially during times of brutal repression, and who paint those who criticize them or oppose them as "enemies of the people", as Stalin and Trump refer to the press. And right wing authoritarians like Duarte, who rule through fear and intimidation, and who steal the country blind (a frequently problem in countries ruled by strong men).

Marx stated "Until the “higher” phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand the strictest control by society and by the state over the measure of labor and the measure of consumption; but this control must start with the expropriation of the capitalists, with the establishment of workers' control over the capitalists, and must be exercised not by a state of bureaucrats, but by a state of armed workers. The dictatorship of the proletariat. How is it impossible for communism to be authoritarian? The founder of communism proposed dictatorship. Marx thoughts on democracy: "Democracy is of enormous importance to the working class in its struggle against the capitalists for its emancipation. But democracy is by no means a boundary not to be overstepped; it is only one of the stages on the road from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to communism. Democracy is not a requisite for communism according to Marx the author of communism.

 

[Markle]

That's every Socialist Leaders Wet Dream! To Lord over the peasants without ever having earned any of it!

How hard does the one percent have to work under capitalism?

That depends. Are they the individuals that grew the wealth in the first place or are they the second or third generation that is living off Grandpa's efforts? IOW, it takes a lot of hard work, sacrifice, and risk to get into the 1%. Staying there is more a money management issue.

I think you'll find that the ones who built the wealth are the hardest working of all.

in other words, anyone who wants to build wealth, "has to work hard".

Every wealthy family started with one person who had a dream, a lot of drive, and who took risks and refused to give up. Yes, someone earned that money.

this is what we are supposed to be doing with our Government:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

You ignore the definition and the keyword they included, that word is LIBERTY.

liberty
noun

lib·er·ty | \ˈli-bər-tē \
plural liberties
Definition of liberty
(Entry 1 of 2)

1: the quality or state of being free:

a: the power to do as one pleases

b: freedom from physical restraint

c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic (see DESPOT sense 1) control

d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges

e: the power of choice

 

[danielpalos]

Our welfare clause is General not Common.

What does that mean to you?

It means there is no provision for Excuses in the federal doctrine, only results.

You're making less sense than usual.

you are clueless and Causeless, like usual. i don't make excuses.

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

 

[hadit]

What does that mean to you?

It means there is no provision for Excuses in the federal doctrine, only results.

You're making less sense than usual.

you are clueless and Causeless, like usual. i don't make excuses.

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

 

[danielpalos]

It means there is no provision for Excuses in the federal doctrine, only results.

You're making less sense than usual.

you are clueless and Causeless, like usual. i don't make excuses.

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

They wrote it. They did not Imply it. Our welfare clause is General. There is no provision for excuses.

 

[Flash]

Cuba falling apart building by building.

How Havana is collapsing, building by building

Socialism: it works every time as planned!

The leaders become billionaires while the People starve.

Oh wait, you thought handing over your stuff and your life to Socialist Leaders was going to be BETTER for you?

But yet the Moon Bat's worthless Jungle Monkey President went down there and publicly gave Castro a blow job in front of the whole world.

 

[hadit]

You're making less sense than usual.

you are clueless and Causeless, like usual. i don't make excuses.

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

The wrote it. They did not Imply it. Our welfare clause is General. There is no provision for excuses.

But do you understand that it's not unlimited, by understanding how everything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states, that you can't just apply it to everything?

 

[sartre play]

Any one have any current news about Cuba?

 

[danielpalos]

you are clueless and Causeless, like usual. i don't make excuses.

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

The wrote it. They did not Imply it. Our welfare clause is General. There is no provision for excuses.

But do you understand that it's not unlimited, by understanding how everything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states, that you can't just apply it to everything?

They have to be able able to promote the general welfare to solve problems.

 

[hadit]

You also don't often make a coherent argument. You post random phrases that don't really relate to anything, then more phrases to explain yourself. Do you even know the difference between general and common and how they both apply to the Constitution?

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

The wrote it. They did not Imply it. Our welfare clause is General. There is no provision for excuses.

But do you understand that it's not unlimited, by understanding how everything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states, that you can't just apply it to everything?

They have to be able able to promote the general welfare to solve problems.

Anything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states and the people, remember?

 

[danielpalos]

I know how to use a dictionary. General must be comprehensive since it is not Common.

Is that what the writers intended? IOW, be careful that you're not taking a single word or phrase completely out of context and applying meaning that wasn't intended.

The wrote it. They did not Imply it. Our welfare clause is General. There is no provision for excuses.

But do you understand that it's not unlimited, by understanding how everything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states, that you can't just apply it to everything?

They have to be able able to promote the general welfare to solve problems.

Anything not expressly enumerated is reserved to the states, remember?

The general welfare clause is Express, not Implied.