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Cubanascnan: A Century of Dictators

Democracy and capitalism can be painful, and you don't always like the outcomes. Some days, you win, but most days you lose. Under a dictatorship, life can be good for a time, but your ancestors will eventually starve and end up on a raft headed for a nearby capitalistic country. Marxism makes a lot of sense theoretically, but in practice, every time it has been tried it has failed. This can take a couple of decades, and the success of communism requires a parasitic relationship with a capitalistic system as it has to sell into this mixed market economy to meet the monetary needs of the government and the entitlements promised to the people. Communism failed in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and to some extent in Venezuela, and although these are different cultures and countries, they were all unsuccessful for the same reason. Food, education, housing, healthcare, and defense insecurity were brought about by a lack of a mixed market economy that lacked the necessary resiliency to get through lean times. All of the aforementioned nations had a golden age that lasted for decades, but any brand of Marxism will fail as a result of a lack of diversification of the economy and the people in conjunction with needing capitalism to perpetuate their government's ideological narratives and the money needed to give their populace adequate security. People who have lived in these systems often blame economic contractions on corruption as a form of laziness and conditioning, but the reality is that in every system there is expansion and contraction. In democracy and capitalism, nothing is perfect, but at any given time, some people are failing, and some people are winning. In socialism and communism, the entire economy is dependent on the success and failures of the larger capitalistic economies in the world, and everyone wins a little and loses a lot together. Batista's and Fidel's Cuba both had economic high points that lasted in total for three decades collectively, but both regimes were utter failures as they failed to liv

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