No, it's an abysmal failure of the 'revolution' that they're prostitutes.
Psychologists may be better able than political scientists to explain why many American liberals idealize foreign dictatorships with institutions or values that they find horrifying in milder forms in the United States. For some reason, many American leftists who loathe the military are not troubled by the fact that Castro appears in public only in a military uniform. American liberals somehow manage to support gay rights in the United States while ignoring Castro's vicious campaigns against homosexuality, which he has defined as a "bourgeois perversion" American liberals fret about the FBI and Internet censorship, while calling for the United States to befriend a regime where culture and religion are rigidly controlled by the secret police.
American liberals opposed to the death penalty often discover charisma in this Cuban caudillo who has frequently resorted to the firing squad to eliminate his opponents. Liberals who mock the "family values" and law-and-order rhetoric of the right, suddenly discovered the importance of family values and law and order when applauding Janet Reno's seizure and deportation of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba (where he is now being programmed like other Cuban children to revere Castro and hate the United States).
As we saw during the Elian incident, liberals who would be offended by stereotypes about Mexicans or Haitians feel free to smear Cuban-Americans as a group. Last but not least, many liberals who want to stamp out sexism and smoking in their own country find themselves titillated by a macho despot whose characteristic prop is a phallic cigar.
Can anyone seriously doubt that, if Castro were a right-wing military dictator rather than a self-described socialist, American liberals would be demanding internationally supervised free elections in Cuba, calling for tighter sanctions to bring down the regime, and perhaps even demanding an international invasion to free the Cuban people?
Unfortunately, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat in Russia in 1917 until the present, all too many liberals and leftists in the United States and Europe have been willing to excuse murderous dictators such as Castro who have used the magic word "socialism" to describe their despotic rule. Even now, some gullible liberals still excuse Castro's vicious autocracy by falling for the regime's propaganda about universal literacy and free health care. (As was the case in the Soviet Union and East Germany, the glowing official reports about Cuban schools and hospitals will almost certainly turn out to be lies).
Few on the American left anymore defend Lenin, Stalin or Mao, who between them starved or executed almost a hundred million of their own people in the 20th century. But their murderous disciple Fidel Castro can still inspire a flutter in the hearts of many American liberals who are willing to withdraw their objections to tyranny when the tyrant claims to be on the left. *** WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD FOR CASTRO?
No, it's an abysmal failure of the 'revolution' that they're prostitutes.
Why did it take sixteen posts for someone to state the obvious?