@Finfinder
I didn't say you hated Cubans I said Cubans hate Puerto Ricans and I was being tongue and cheek. I do know many Cuban people they all seem to say the same thing. Its the cultural war thing its documented and well known.
Back to this topic. Bernie Sanders made pro communist comments. So are you for or against communism. Is this thread to make fun of those people who are protesting,its confusing. BTW I told you Bernies comments would be a problem here in Florida and gave you an example of the Miami Marlins. I know it hurts you terribly to give me credit but I know what I'm talking about. LOL
Bernie did not say he was a communist. He said that the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro did accomplish some positives. Like literacy campaigns. Why? Because it is true. Castro encouraged literacy campaigns because 1960 Cuba was a place with very few rural Cubans who knew how to read and write. Most upper class and middle class Cubans with great private educations fled after the Revolution. Most because the economy tanked and they did not agree with Fidel's 'reforms'. This left most of Cuba without teachers, engineers, doctors, lawyers and professionals of all sorts. Office dependent professions. So? You got to educate the ones that remain Fin. And he did.
Did you read my profile? You should have. I am an Erich Fromm international socialist. I back Richard Wolff's economic plan for the USA and for the world. He is Marxist economics professor graduated from Harvard, and other elite universities. He speaks English, French and German I think. He is extremely interesting and studies economics in depth. And he has economic solutions that are based on Marxist points of view. That is who I endorse Fin.
I am not a liberal Fin. I never was. I am far Left. I am friends with people who are moderates, liberals, even right wing people. But I don't agree with their solutions to society.
Do I endorse violence? No, I hate it. I would rather die than kill someone and hurt or torture them just so my political point of view dominates and wins. For me? It you need to go and kill and torture others and that is the only way you can win? I would rather die. I like Gandhian principles. If you can unite a lot of people on moral principles and taking the high road, and you don't cooperate with the group doing the oppressing? You cut off their ability to manipulate and control? By not giving them any room to lie on you and kill? You win the right way. Without a bloody awful thing.
But human beings are insistent on violence as the way to solve conflict. I understand that allowing one's self to pick up a gun to defend your own life might be necessary in a revolution. The USA revolutionary war was about guns and fire fights and death between the King George's redcoats and the American revolutionaries. Was it a non violent war? No. Most wars for power and independence are not peaceful ones.
It is interesting though that only the ones who do all these Imperialistic unfair and horrible foreign intervention policies? Blame the ones who actually live and breathe and are members of the society they wish to not use violence against them. In other words? Let Batista use violence, let the American troops and American gangsters like Luciano, and the American corporations through the local police and military use violence against the local protestors....but the ones receiving the violence? Shut up. Accept it passively. That is not human nature either Fin.
What I would like? Is for people to be civilized and talk through conflict like equals and adult people who respect life. Life that is not the same as your own....yet valuable and allow dialog to form a policy agreeable to both parties. Negotiate and respect and reach agreements. Like civilized frontal cortex human beings.
I would like us to get so good at respecting life, each other, the planet and all the cultures of the world? That we destroy those nuclear bombs and etc and get rid of serious threats against human extinction caused by our own lack of maturity as a species.
I am willing to die for my cause of international socialism and Erich Fromm based socialism and advancements. It is Marxist based in thought. But I am not willing to kill another human being for it. Not if they are not in my home threatening me with death or my children or family or friends with death. I believe in self defense Fin. I do. But would I kill someone because they disagree with me and I have to have control, power and be able to force someone who disagrees with me to do what I say or face death? Authoritarian, totalitarian types of rule? NO. I never liked that.
Once you think you have the right to kill for the right to be in control only? You lose the moral high ground. Once you do that? You lose your humanity. Once you lose your humanity? What is the fight about? Nothing. Nothing good.
That is my reply to you. Finfinder.
I like Bernie. Do I agree with him? Yes. All of his ideas? No? But he is going through the ballot box. Not through armed revolution. If the ballot box is corrupted? Armed revolutions are not far away. Don't corrupt the ballot box Fin. That is the lesson to be learned for that.