• Cuba bans another newspaper. People who try to access it are redirected to a website bitching about
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[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74993000/jpg/_74993339_74993334.jpg[/img] [i]Yoani Sanchez was one of the activists allowed to travel abroad after the government eased restrictions in 2013[/i] [quote]The Cuban government has blocked an online newspaper launched by well-known dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, hours after it went live. Web users in Cuba are being diverted to another website, which accuses Ms Sanchez of having hidden political interests. Ms Sanchez said her website, called 14ymedio, would provide daily news about the communist-run country. She insisted it would not be a platform against the government. But web users in Cuba reported that they were being diverted to a website calling itself "yoani$landia", which accuses Ms Sanchez of being "obsessed with money". "This website is from a group of people who had enough of seeing Yoani Sanchez presenting herself as the Mother Teresa of Calcutta of Cuban dissidents," says an article on the site. It adds that Ms Sanchez is "probably the richest Cuban on the island" and is funded by Spanish and Brazilian media outfits. The editors of yoani$landia do not identify themselves, but they are believed to be Cuban government officials.[/quote] lol communists [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27511211[/url]
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44870484] lol communists [/QUOTE] I believe what you meant to say was totalitarian, corrupt governments.
[QUOTE=toaster468;44872926]I believe what you meant to say was totalitarian, corrupt governments.[/QUOTE] well you pretty much just reworded that and made it longer still the same thing
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44873148]well you pretty much just reworded that and made it longer still the same thing[/QUOTE] Definition of communism: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Communism is not inherently corrupt. His point was completely valid. Cuba does these kind of things because they are corrupt and totalitarian, not because the government party identifies as communists.
Yes we get it communism by the books is perfect whatever blah blah. But there has never been a communist government practiced by that, communism might as well take the definition on of how its been practiced.
[QUOTE=SGTSpartans;44874738]Yes we get it communism by the books is perfect whatever blah blah. But there has never been a communist government practiced by that, communism might as well take the definition on of how its been practiced.[/QUOTE] Communism is stateless. 'Communist government' is an oxymoron. All of these were totalitarian socialist regimes. They called themselves communists, because their end goal was for their socialism to evolve into communism.
[quote]It adds that Ms Sanchez is "probably the richest Cuban on the island" and is funded by Spanish and Brazilian media outfits.[/quote] That coming from the guys funding idiots dressed as heads of states in South America...this is some North Korean shit
Communism is not really a bad system, however the only one that make it look bad are people who become corrupt with power and turn the whole government into a totalitarian/dictator government. you can have both communism and democracy but i doubt nobody will want that system because how communism is always being branded as evil.
i find it humorous that sobotnik chooses to post articles that are 'supposedly' against socialism and communism.
Portugal's constitution says that they will "open up a path towards a socialist society". Where else have you seen the word socialist? That's right: the National Socialist German Workers' Party, a.k.a. the NAZI PARTY. Portugal wants to become NAZI GERMANY. /GlennBeck
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;44874655]Definition of communism: a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Communism is not inherently corrupt. His point was completely valid. Cuba does these kind of things because they are corrupt and totalitarian, not because the government party identifies as communists.[/QUOTE] except they are still claiming to follow marxist ideology backpedal all you like, but cuba has spent the past half century being run by people who identify as communists [editline]22nd May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=darkedone02;44875184]Communism is not really a bad system, however the only one that make it look bad are people who become corrupt with power and turn the whole government into a totalitarian/dictator government. you can have both communism and democracy but i doubt nobody will want that system because how communism is always being branded as evil.[/QUOTE] in a democracy people don't choose communism, usually it always appears in a society which is totalitarian its not so much that communism is totalitarian in nature, but that the only people who've had the power to enforce it have been in historically autocratic countries in democracies meanwhile, communist parties tend to lose, and thats not because people see communists as evil
[QUOTE=PolarEventide;44874741]Communism is stateless. 'Communist government' is an oxymoron. All of these were totalitarian socialist regimes. They called themselves communists, because their end goal was for their socialism to evolve into communism.[/QUOTE] And my end goal is to ride a unicorn into market and sell toasters made of jam. Instead I just have a pile of squashed pigeons and a strawberry-smelling electrical fire.
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