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Originally Posted by Seth
cuba would've made it if it wasn't for all the sanctions.
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Communism in its true form wouldn't be hurt by sanctions, as by definition the the communist state is self-sufficient (according to Marx and Lenin). So if Cuba didn't make it because of sanctions, then it wasn't and isn't a communist nation.
Castro's Cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship; fascism with better public relations. That is what all "communist" nations are in practice because for the concept to work people must willingly devalue themselves to the point of being cogs in a massive machine, so in short order the concept fails because for people to care about the state (or anything else) they must care about themselves first before they can care about anything else. This is basic Psychology 101.
So the people stop buying in to the concept, and for the state to exist the government must enforce the ideal through fear instead of the original idea of nationalistic fundamentalism. And so the state degrades from the "fatherland" to the "fearland", where the people risk death to flee the state that will not recognize them as individuals and constantly beats all individuality out of them.
This is what happens when communism is attempted. Marx's great idea, while pure in intention, has lead to the uneeded deaths of tens of millions in Soviet gulags and at the bad end of machine gun towers. Communism hasn't worked yet, not because it hasn't been attempted true to Marxist ideals, but because the concept is fatally flawed from the outset.
If you want to see an excellent satire of Cuba's fall to "communism", watch Woody Allen's movie "Bananas". He nails it on the head.