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In reply to the discussion: It's not as simple as "Castro was an evil dictator". [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Especially if they're the kind of "elections" they had in Eastern Europe in the Nineties...where ALL parties ran on a right-wing austerity program and the people had no opportunity to reject "shock therapy".
The Miami exiles, especially the old ones don't want anything progressive for Cuba(and the tiny number of "moderates" among the young Miami Cubans will never matter in that discussion). They don't want the free education and healthcare to survive. They don't want the egalitarian values to survive. They still want people thrown out of the houses they moved into in 1959(if they were progressive, they would at least give up on that last one, since you can't want that and have any humane values).
They want a market economy...which means permanent right-wing dominance and permanent white heterosexual supremacy.
I want more human rights for Cuba. We all do. I just don't want capitalism and the restoration of the old days. Capitalism can only mean the place ends up exactly like Poland or Hungary right now(which is the way Poland and Hungary will be forever, because the far right never loses office after gaining it and never declines in popularity once in power).