h/t Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.
Oligarchism, until the system resets itself.
Bfl
The Castros ended up owning something like 80% of Cuba.
The Cuban commies, like every other commie, has no ‘care’ about feeding the people. People are just more pawns in the game of control.
In Nicaragua, before the Sandinista Commies took power, there were thriving farmers markets everywhere. In small towns and large cities, the farmers and ranchers would bring their products to sell and barter. The day after the commies took power, no farmer markets were allowed. All the food became the people’s food, and strict rationing was instituted.
In Cuba, the farmers are not allowed to harvest. They have to wait for the government flunkies to arrive. Crops can sit and rot until someone arrives.
Also in Cuba, no one is allowed to own a boat. Not just because many would leave. All around the island is an ocean teeming with life. They are not allowed to fish in the waters off the coast.
It has been this way since the commies took over.
Communist regimes have always been a mafia. Just because they wrap themselves in slogans doesn’t mean it isn’t naked coercion.
Right...
Because, who would notice that some Hispanic guy made 45 USA-Cuba round trips in ten months?
In Việt Nam after the old revolutionaries died off the Party seems to have become something like an enlightened Mafia and has got off the people’s backs pretty much thanks in part to the pressure to ease exerted by Clinton and the Bushes. When we have Democrats in control here things deteriorate some in Việt Nam. With Mr. Biden at the top here Vietnamese government has to make nice with the Chinese monster. Vietnamese people see all that and those that immigrate to the US, like the Cubans, rarely vote Democrat.
They forgot to make their contribution to Biden and the Dem party or they would have been ignored.
The point in communism when you run out of other peoples’ money.
Thanks for posting.
The drug cartels have put the commies out of business.
Faces the most disastrous economic collapse in history.
Cuba following the Biden plan.
It’s normal. In fact, it’s the central feature of Communism.
It’s just a return to Feudalism.
The Party = The Aristocracy
The Land is owned by the Party. See above for who that is.
Peasants = Proletariat
The Proles still owe a significant fraction of their labor to the Party. See above for who that is.
The Party becomes a hereditary thugocracy. IOW, a “mafia”. Why would they allow anyone else into the gang? You only get jumped in if they think you are useful. Or you’re a better thug then they are.
Nothin’ new under the sun. It was only in America for about 80 years where it was different. Wasn’t bad for the next 50 years - still no tithes to the Big Man - but that ended in 1913, and the regression back to the Old Boss was complete.