Fidel Castro Dead

He was awful.

Cuba in the 50's may have been poorly managed in terms of education and utilities and inequality but Havana was essentially Las Vegas at the sea, Cuba's real wages after inflation were the third highest in the world and it's GDP per capita were comparable to Italy and Japan.

Cuba today may be equal and its citizens above the extreme poverty line but it's GDP per capita is half the global average and it's people relatively impoverished when compared to the rest of the world.

To put it this way, it we double the GDP per capita to take into account the trade embargo then Cuba reaches the global average but if we never have the revolution and assume that Cuba experiences the same moderate growth as Italy and Japan over 50 years then Cuba is as wealthy as the UK in per capita terms.

Plus he almost started nuclear war.

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Lefties admire him because he was not genocidal and managed to feed and clothe his people but he still represents the failure of a planned economy when compared to what could have been.

The people needed a slightly more progressive approach from government.. they got a axe to the throat.

He was awful.

Cuba in the 50's may have been poorly managed in terms of education and utilities and inequality but Havana was essentially Las Vegas at the sea, Cuba's real wages after inflation were the third highest in the world and it's GDP per capita were comparable to Italy and Japan.

Cuba today may be equal and its citizens above the extreme poverty line but it's GDP per capita is half the global average and it's people relatively impoverished when compared to the rest of the world.

To put it this way, it we double the GDP per capita to take into account the trade embargo then Cuba reaches the global average but if we never have the revolution and assume that Cuba experiences the same moderate growth as Italy and Japan over 50 years then Cuba is as wealthy as the UK in per capita terms.

Plus he almost started nuclear war.

..

Lefties admire him because he was not genocidal and managed to feed and clothe his people but he still represents the failure of a planned economy when compared to what could have been.

The people needed a slightly more progressive approach from government.. they got a axe to the throat.

Truly a legend, one of the greatest figures of the 20th century.

He was a dictator who ran a one party state that suppressed any dissent and was responsible for all sorts of human rights abuses.

As opposed to a totalitarian democracy which backed the coups of fascist dictators.

The world will suffer for this loss.

The world won't even notice.

Which I never said anything about. Don't change the subject.

Castro is a part of history whereas nobody will ever know your name.

It is all interconnected. Castro's violence was justified as an act of self-defence against the parasites who were ruining Cuba. Unless you really think Batista and his followers deserved to live in which case you are capitalist swine.

You should consider cleaning the dirt from under the nails of your system before pointing accusingly at Cuba.

Part of history isn't the same thing as saying the world will suffer.

How will it suffer? What's he been doing the last few years that has affected the whole world? How many average people outside North America and Europe have ever even heard of him?

He was awful.

Cuba in the 50's may have been poorly managed in terms of education and utilities and inequality but Havana was essentially Las Vegas at the sea, Cuba's real wages after inflation were the third highest in the world and it's GDP per capita were comparable to Italy and Japan.

Cuba today may be equal and its citizens above the extreme poverty line but it's GDP per capita is half the global average and it's people relatively impoverished when compared to the rest of the world.

To put it this way, it we double the GDP per capita to take into account the trade embargo then Cuba reaches the global average but if we never have the revolution and assume that Cuba experiences the same moderate growth as Italy and Japan over 50 years then Cuba is as wealthy as the UK in per capita terms.

Plus he almost started nuclear war.

..

Lefties admire him because he was not genocidal and managed to feed and clothe his people but he still represents the failure of a planned economy when compared to what could have been.

The people needed a slightly more progressive approach from government.. they got a axe to the throat.

You should consider not using stupid whataboutery as an argument.

You should also consider not making ridiculous assumptions about my political views based on one thing that I've said. You think that having a negative opinion of a communist dictator means I must automatically support the authoritarian government that preceeded him, or the actions of certain western countries in Latin America? Seriously? That's one hell of a leap of logic there.


And political repression of your own citizens is not "self defence".