To Anonymous above- I couldn't agree with you more. In fact if people took the time to read the actual dictionary definition of the word communism instead of waiting for some captalist politician to tell them what it means they'd discover it to be an excellent lifestyle and political philosophy. In fact most races of color-whether they were the Africans, Native Americans, Asians, Polynisians or Aztecs all lived a 'communist' or communal existence to some extent where the wealth of the community was shared equally with all its members irregardless of who farmed it or who caught it or who made it and they did quite well with it until they came into contact with Europeans and their selfish,dog eat dog, I got mine-you get yours, me,me,me kind of culture. And when people started trying to live like europeans and abandoning their shared and considered lifestyle, it began their downfall which is why so many 'third world' countries and peoples are in the deplorable states they're in now. They stopped living in the state of grace that made them great and started trying to live like their colonizers and conquerers. The only problem with communism comes when corrupt and evil men subvert it for their own ends. You can't corrupt and subvert capitalism. It is by its very nature already corrupt and subverted. It requires those two things in order to survive and flourish. And before anyone gives me the 'love it or leave it line' let me just preempt you by saying it's better to work for change from the belly of the beast rather than from its
right hand.



Fidel is probably doing the best that he can with what he has which God knows, thanks to the embargo, isn't very much . But those who hate Castro and want to see him brought down needn't worry. As soon as he passes away I'm sure they'll be a made rush to 'americanize' Cuba again as it was prior to 1960. Turn it into a millionaire's playground, use it as a drug conduit to the US, get its people back into prostitution and street hustling and close all the free schools and free clinics. After all there's no profit to be made in that. And that'll last until another Castro comes along. You see, the funny thing about captialism is that in the end it dooms and consumes itself and actually creates the very thing it claims to hate most. A Fidel Castro.