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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Aug 21 2004, 10:07 PM
Can you explain why so many Cubans have left for or attempted to leave for the US?
It's not nearly as rosy a life as you make it out to be.
Communism, as it has been implemented on this planet, is inherently oppressive. Oppression could very easily be considered evil.
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40 years of blockade has crippled Cuba's economy and has made getting even basic services a challenge. Let's put it to you this way Dis, if Witchita got blockaded by the surrounding cities and towns in the state, and your family needed medical attention or just food on the table, would you not run the lockade to get them the assistance you felt was needed? Now the only reason they head for Florida is because it is a very short, and relatively easy trip (comparatively speaking), not because it's such a great place to live. Plus, they blend in so well in south Florida that it is hard to pick out the illegal.
To answer the question, Communism is a great idea in a Utopian world. Unfortunately the world is not Utopian and very few humans would survive in such an idealistic spot. Utopia does not take into consideration the basic desire of most humans to better themselves and achieve greater things/challenges. Communism fails to answer these traits as well and breeds a nation of non-motivated under-achievers. If there was some way of honestly rewarding people in a Communist model then I think it would be a great system to live under (if you are non-motivated). Unfortunately there is no just way for it to work, and has proven to be way too open to corruption, hence its failings.