Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Cuba blames protests on US as Biden offers support to demonstrations" video.
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You act like the two are the same thing. They aren't. It's unfortunate that a large proportion of the country lacks basic education in political science to distinguish between them, but I'll do my best to correct your error. Communism is an explicitly authoritarian ideology that was meant to lend more power to the oppressed masses of workers, the proletariat. Since Vladimir Lenin adopted the ideology as his own in the early 20th century, it's never worked in quite that fashion. Instead, a vanguard party takes over until the country has reached the level of economic development necessary for a proletariat revolution. Suffice it to say this hasn't happened, and on the whole Marxism-Leninism has been an abject failure. Socialism, however, has two quite distinct connotations: as a synonym for Communism (as in the United Soviet Socialist Republics, or the U.S.S.R.), and as an ideology that takes a more moderate and libertarian approach to the massive wealth disparities wrought by capitalism. In the former sense, North Korea and Cuba may be correctly labeled "socialist" economies. The latter, however, much more closely resembles the economic policies of Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, with a generous welfare state and collective bargaining. They call their specific brand of socialism the "Nordic Model," which is classified as a form of "social democracy," a kind of libertarian socialism. The two, politically speaking, could not be more different from one another, and one may confirm this by simply observing the quality of life of the average citizen in any of these countries and what rights and protections they are afforded by law. I hope this clears up your confusion.
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You act like the two are the same thing. They aren't. It's unfortunate that a large proportion of the country lacks basic education in political science to distinguish between them, but I'll do my best to correct your error. Communism is an explicitly authoritarian ideology that was meant to lend more power to the oppressed masses of workers, the proletariat. Since Vladimir Lenin adopted the ideology as his own in the early 20th century, it's never worked in quite that fashion. Instead, a vanguard party takes over until the country has reached the level of economic development necessary for a proletariat revolution. Suffice it to say this hasn't happened, and as a whole Marxism-Leninism has been an abject failure. Socialism, however, has two quite distinct connotations: as a synonym for Communism (as in the United Soviet Socialist Republics, or the U.S.S.R.), and as an ideology that takes a more moderate and libertarian approach to the massive wealth disparities wrought by capitalism. In the former sense, North Korea and Cuba may be correctly labeled "socialist" economies. The latter, however, much more closely resembles the economic policies of Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, with a generous welfare state and collective bargaining. They call their specific brand of socialism the "Nordic Model," which is classified as a form of "social democracy," a kind of libertarian socialism. The two, politically speaking, could not be more different from one another, and one may confirm this by simply observing the quality of life of the average citizen in any of these countries and what rights and protections they are afforded by law. I hope this clears up your confusion.
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