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I want to know if Cuba's system is capitalist or communist?
Privatizing and free market is functional in there as well or everything is instituted by the government?
I don't want to know what media says about Cuba. i just want to know some people from there, what's it about the protest and what's going on?
I live in capitalist country with massive corrupt government and crisis after crisis and the worst way of management (GOV killing people)!
I want to connect some points that are missing from the politics map.
please answer me in any way you know.
thank you

Hi there
Communism is a theory that has been created by capitalism, however it never executed nowhere on this planet. USSR was not communist when Lenin took the power he though the country is not ready for it and came up with "Capital state". He made everything public. By that he could make a poor country like Russia to a super power. However he didn't distribute power back to people and that was his problem and Stalin took advantage of it. Nowadays countries which claim to be communist are actually pure capitalist with the banner of communism! example: china, north Korea and so on. These things that you mentioned like:

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it seems fair, that people who do more should have more
it seems fair, that people who take more responsibility should get a greater reward
it seems fair, that risking what you have should result in a reward for you
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These are the goals of communism too! However the problems lies within unjust nature of capitalism, for example by privatization there will be no school left for poor to learn and contribute to grow and make something out of him/her self and others.
You may say so his/her parent should have money to send their children to private schools. But it's not their fault. For example when capitalist system took everything that was public and privatized it and gave it the rich and you may say so the rich had the money and so be it. Then I say please search for "primitive accumulation" for more info, so you know how that rich guy became rich in the first place.
And i can go on and on about this topic and in the end there is no solution right now, because everything is so tangled into each other so you can not fix something without breaking another thing. Right now the smartest people thinking about this situation and they could not figure it out.
As Marx said " Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.” So lets get rid of false hope or "imaginary flowers " to see the real chain on our feet.

@kaia_
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@kaia_ said in Is Capitalism Evil? [The Rise of Reason I]:

@pe7erpark3r Clarity of thought and information. An economic system should never have a deep divide between the rich and poor, and hopefully onward to build an upgraded form of human centered capitalism where we insist that the markets serve human interests for all of us, not just generate wealth for some. It seems that most people, on both sides, are too narrow to understand that humans function with both cooperation and competition.. But, that's how politics works! Money on the other hand is just about social hierarchy.

watch this vdieo from Vsauce and give your opinion about it:

it has some flaws BTW, but its a great start for continuing this argument.
After you gave your opinion, I will give you my opinoin.

@kaia_

@kaia_ said in Is Capitalism Evil? [The Rise of Reason I]:

@winston4mg I think he's explaining the evolutionary history for how a community of people can come together to reach an acceptable conclusion by balancing the outliers. Am I right?

yes you are completely right. However there is a downside to this particular idea "lottocracy".
First i should explain Socrates's view on democracy; He said democracy doesn't work because not everyone has the same knowledge (awareness) as everyone else, and this void of Knowledge (awareness) gets filed with advertising and superstition. It's like 10 person, 8 sheeps and 2 humans vote for where to live and the 8 sheeps vote for barns! Democracy is not for all people it's for majority and most of the time majority fooled with superstitions and advertising [because of lack of knowledge (awareness)].
Second because of "primitive accumulation" there is always a rich guy behind every society. For simplification we call them elites.
Therefor because elites have everything on their control, the theaters, the TV stations, the channels, the education and ... . they can manipulate the overall reasoning of all.
So i thinks lottocracy doesn't work either. But life is an struggle, we stumble along the way, and i think this one is good struggle which we could fight for.
don't you think?