Posted on 08/19/2006 11:05:53 AM PDT by billorites
On the other hand, control could revert to the mob.
Castro Lite will not last forever as well. La Revolucion is in its last throes.. and behind it comes a tsunami thirsting for democracy and capitalism
Fascist states tend not to be long-lived. After the original dictator dies, everything falls apart.
"Half a century of material failure is far too long a period."
I dunno, most African countries seem to have tolerated it for millenia.
Let's hope Islam stays out of Cuba.
This is like the folks who thought communism would end with Lenin....and then got stalin.
Fidel is like Lenin....his brother is another Stalin.
If Cuba is permitted to be free, thoae who carried out atrocities will all be brought to trial. They're not going to let that happen.
I would not be surprised, but considering Raul's background, if he is in charge, expect to Cuba's population start dwindling via execution shortly.
Has anybody even SEEN Raoul since Fidel's death the temporary turnover of power?
The Soviet Union lasted a pretty long time after Lenin died.
Too late. The Cuban regime has been an ardent and active supporter of Islamist terrorism.
Yea, he was on TV a couple of times since then, but no more or less then usual.
He did give one interview, but thats about it.
"Communism was a 20th-Century nightmare that left 100 million dead and a third of the planet mired in poverty and terror."
This is recognized almost everywhere execpt sociology departmets of most American universities, Hollywood, the new left, etc.
Cuba is not the only "exception." The communist dictatorship in Venezuela proves how readily countries south of the border can, do and will go communist. Down there, all you have to do is promise the have-nots the property of the haves and you will come to power, just like Chavez did. This has happened over and over. They never learn.
True, but the USSR wasn't originally founded as a one-man fascist state.
The man is entitled to hope and to see signs of hope. But his political analysis is unimpressive. While it's perfectly true that Castro has been terrible for Cuba, and there is undoubtedly a great deal of discontent, that doesn't mean Cuba will necessarily be free after the evil Castro dies. Even less does it mean that a free Cuba will last, or be either politically or economically successful.
The tyranny may simply have lasted too long and done too much damage to be reversed.
Thats according to the Trotskyites who still believe that, I think Lenin always saw it as his nation under his rule, with all the appearances of being something else, which the trotskys of the party thought.
Its also why Lenin referred to liberals in other countries as "useful idiots", he always wanted it to be a one man state, he just didn't want it to look that way.
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