I’m 56, and I’ve been confused about the modern accusations of communism because when communism was the big bad in my youth, I figured it was the authoritarianism and lack of freedom that was bad.
As it turns out, I was wrong. What was bad was apparently having the wrong group of people pillaging the country. If they had billionaires stealing everything instead of party elites, it would have been fine.
So communism was bad because western billionaires couldn’t profit from it.
So communism was bad because western billionaires couldn’t profit from it.
Yup. When you dig into the history of Cuba, Iran, basically all of central and South America, what you ultimately find is “This nation decided it wanted to be communist, but that hurt the bottom lines of banana, sugar, and oil companies, so the US waged unrelenting covert and overt wars against these nations”.
I’m 56, and I’ve been confused about the modern accusations of communism because when communism was the big bad in my youth, I figured it was the authoritarianism and lack of freedom that was bad.
As it turns out, I was wrong. What was bad was apparently having the wrong group of people pillaging the country. If they had billionaires stealing everything instead of party elites, it would have been fine.
So communism was bad because western billionaires couldn’t profit from it.
Yup. When you dig into the history of Cuba, Iran, basically all of central and South America, what you ultimately find is “This nation decided it wanted to be communist, but that hurt the bottom lines of banana, sugar, and oil companies, so the US waged unrelenting covert and overt wars against these nations”.