Cuba's communist one- party system, democracy, & western capitalist dictatorships

short political philosophy vid about Cuba. Long Live the Cuban Revolution!

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• Discussion: Cuba
• one- party system
• democracy

[cubano1979]

This is the dumbest statement video I have ever seen. So now the only way to achieve democracy is to only have one totalitarian party for life! WTF is this guy smoking? Do you even you realize how stupid that sounds? I guess communist brainwashing is still strong among western useful idiots without a reference of ever living under a totalitarian state. 50 years under the same government clan, is that what you really want?? Dee dee dee.

[CommunistNewZealand]

@cubano1979 you are a fuking moron. Your western shit governments are totalitarian. Try voting for a party who wants to abolish capitalism, its will NOT happen. Thus your political parties, your western governments are totalitarian in and of themselves

[cubano1979]

Cuba's government is really a capitalist totalitarian system, read the news you dumbass. It's too easy to use the greatest capitalist invention of all time, the internet, and abuse the freedoms democracy brings. If you were in Cuba right now you would think totally different but wouldn't be able to express yourself because the totalitarian government forbids freedom of expression.

[CommunistNewZealand]

@cubano1979'' 'Does a person in Cuba has the same right to advocate for Capitalism in the same way as you advocate for communism in New Zealand?'

Thats a difficult question. There have been government attacks in NZ against unions, but it's impossible to generalize. From memory the Cuban Constitution prohibits free speeech that is inconsistent with the principles of the socialist Revolution-but this would need to be re-checked.

It's a question of degree...

[CommunistNewZealand]

@CommunistNewZealand

Arguably, Cuba is more transparent about restricting free specch. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (section 14) confers a right to freedom of expression, but even this is limitable, see sections 4 & 5 of that Act. Even capitalist countries cannot claim to have complete and unfettered freedom of political opinion.

[EricRamirezRodriguez]

And Venezuela and Bolivia?

[CommunistNewZealand]

@EricRamirezRodriguez what about them

[Guevaristas]

Capitalist countries are not democratic. Socialist countries are far more democratic. Lenin stated:

'Democracy for the vast majority of the people, and suppression by force, i.e., exclusion from democracy, of the exploiters and oppressors of the people--this is the change democracy undergoes during the transition from capitalism to communism.'

V. Lenin "The State & Revolution" (1918)

Thus socialist majority (not minority) ownership of land & industry etc THIS is far more democratic

[CommunistNewZealand]

@samot8728 its not suppression of free speech, many high-jack these vids and abuse the shit out of others, so they end up being blocked

[CommunistNewZealand]

@Hilldebrand the underlying feature of western capitalist fake-democracies is that capitalism will always remain.

You can vote for whoever you choose, but see what happens when you or the party you voted for attempts to get rid of capitalism: that's when the guns will come out

[Hilldebrand]

The Municipal assemblies nominate delegates to one of the 14 provincial Assemblies and the delegates are voted on by the people under the jurisdiction of its Provincial Assembly, the Provincial Assembly nominates delegates to the Highest Branch, the National Assembly, the People vote on those delegates, and the President of the National Assembly is the Head of state. (ike nancy polosi being president as she is the speaker of the house). Voter turn out is on average between 85-95%