if you compare the quality of life conditions in cuba to any comparable third world country, you would note that they have incredibly high relative quality of life.

especially regarding third world countries, capitalism is specifically designed to increase or maintain poverty while extracting wealth to the first world. socialism is the only system in which we can alleviate the intentional underdevelopment and global impoverishment of humanity around the world.

i have some more reading regarding the studies of this if youd like.

might wild out for a perma. why am I here

damn the responses on 1st page show where were at as a forum lol

pathetic

but they have good cigars and bad hoes

Okay your right
Once communism is established its gonna be all rainbows and sunshine
You win

Imagine not having access to the metaverse lol couldn’t be me

US when Cuba tried to get an undersea internet backbone cable run to it: “absolutely not.”

US when Cuba has a small protest over material conditions created by the US embargo: “wtf why don’t they have internet?!?!?”

all my commie friends become capitalist once they start making money

You clearly never did any reading a socialist fam.

opportunists

Theres plenty of info outhere saying otherwise
More people are getting wealthy in the third then ever
But okay

Calm down take a breath and stop talking about me and focus on the topic at hand

Why does a communist country need the USA resources to function?

f***ing terrifying

btw did u guys know that 82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries.

capitalism baby!

objectively not true and in fact global poverty has drastically increased over the past 50 years outside of socialist countries.

the reason why people can claim "poverty is lower than ever" is because of china single handedly lifting 800 million people out of poverty

Also arbitrary arrests and censorship of all forms of media

Link? Probably nonsense

Do you think the US could produce all the stuff it imports and exist in any form?

Yes china achieved that with a market system

Cuba really needs the US, huh

There's nothing really stopping UBI in a society with runaway inflation

it's the US actively preventing any country in the entire financial sphere from participating in any trade whatsoever with cuba

The US enforces its embargo extra territorially, meaning outside of its own territory much more than you might think. The US is the world’s financial center, and in order to safely trade with cuba, a company needs to have literally no assets whatsoever in the USA itself because otherwise they’ll be at risk of freezing or seizure for breaking the embargo now let’s say that you’re a big company and you’ve got to choose between access to the US or to cuba, would you choose the USA the world’s biggest economy and its financial hub or would you choose cuba, a tiny little island nation of 11 million people? obviously you’re gonna choose the USA. it’s crafted with that in mind, and that’s part of the embargo’s design.

the embargo also specifically targets subsidiaries too punishing their parent companies if they trade with cuba. And what about the US government claims about food and medical exemptions regarding the embargo? well in practice they barely even actually exist they’re intentionally designed to be as unclear as possible in order to create legal uncertainty and since businesses are naturally risk-averse most of them simply choose not to deal with cuba at all, rather than jumping through all of those legal hoops and trying to avoid all of those little caveats that the embargo has in it, those that still try anyway can still have their shipments vetoed for whatever reason the authorities decide so in practice shipping food or medicine from the US to cuba is so prohibitively difficult that most companies don’t even bother to try and that’s intended and it always has been the point of the supposed food and medical exemption, it is not legitimate humanitarian concern, but rather a way for the US government to claim that since these exemptions exist on paper, the sanctions aren’t harming the Cuban people, it is a smokescreen.

It’s almost like island states the size of a small US state require imports to survive in an industrial state

It has nothing to do with politics