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  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoLeft News Wire@ibbit.at•Cuba After Castro
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    22 days ago

    Meet the new boss …,

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    and note to American officials: the right time to get rid of Castro pretty well ended after Bay of Pigs. The sanctions haven’t work: it’s time for you to patch things up with Havana. If you can dally with the Chinese, Saudis, and Israel, Cuba won’t be that much of a moral compromise. Stop being such jerks.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldtoLeft News Wire@ibbit.at•The United States of America: a threat to humanity
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    28 days ago

    IIUC, some Communist purists charged Deng with selling out, and presumably this applies to his successors.

    I’m not so sure about the pirate analogy. IIUC, some pirates were egalitarian, at least more than the imperial navies, and if they were transported from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries to the early 20th, some of them might have joined the Communists. I don’t know what you mean by “active agents”. I suppose they were pretty active in investing in the PRC and buying stuff from it. Maybe “unwitting agents” or “useful non-Communist agents” or maybe “frenemies”.

    Lots of people say that the PRC is not truly Communist, notwithstanding the window-dressing. IIUC, wp:Lee Kuan Yew said something like Communism in China, at least pre-Deng, the degradation by Western colonial powers in the 19th century, and the atrocities by Imperial Japan, were anomalies; and today’s China is simply returning to its original position as the richest country in the world.

    I’m not sure Deng’s goal was to create “a trap”. IIUC, the “international bourgeoisie” wanted cheap labor and perhaps fewer regulations, particularly with the environment, and some stability; and Deng wanted their capital. Also, presumably some capital for arms would help the PRC more in possible future headbutting with the Soviets, maybe Taiwan, and make the US think twice about war (such as Blowhard Trump not invading Kharg Island (as it could lead to something like the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fires and drastically increase oil prices, which could lead to the Democrats winning both Houses 215 days from now, and he (and perhaps Vance, Whiskey Pete, and much of the riff-raff that constitutes the rest of his Cabinet) gets impeached)).

    Each side profited. The American rich and the PRC got richer, and while both are still dependent on each other, I suppose the American rich are more so. The interests of either are not necessarily my interests.