Cuban exiles would come from various economic backgrounds, usually reflecting the emigration wave they were a part of. Many of the Cubans who would emigrate early were from the middle and upper class, but often brought very little with them when leaving Cuba.

Right there. I never denied that various groups also left Cuba, but we have to understand, the driving factor for why so many Cubans are far-right is that the major force that left Cuba were the exiles that fled socialism.

Or, are you saying that Cubans are genetically far-right, and that class has no impact? Why would Cuba itself remain socialist with popular support for the government then?

Why are Miami Cubans generally far-right, in your own terms?

No? I took several years of Spanish. I’m by no means fluent, but the idea that I’m inventing the concept of Cuban exiles requires no Spanish, just simple googling.

Or I understand that Cubans are not genetically far-right, and that the wealthy Cubans that fled socialism have a dominating presence within the Cuban diaspora. Cubans in Cuba have a word for these people: gusanos.

Venezuela hasn’t been overthrown. The commune movement is still alive and well, and the reactionary elements still oppose the PSUV. It’s still an incomplete revolution, one with its hands tied and had to make concessions it did not want to. The Cuban revolution already succeeded, and thus has far more political stability.

I said “generally,” not “every single Cuban in Miami is a slaver.” There are people that left because of economic hardship, not necessarily because they oppose socialism, but the reason so many Miami Cubans are far-right is because a great many of them did have ties to those slavers, gangsters, and plantation owners.

That is a vulgar materialist conception, from those who do not grasp dialectical materialism, as well as those who reject it deliberately. Class reductionism doesn’t recognize secondary contradictions that rest upon the base of primary contradictions, seeing each as separate and butchering how contradiction actually works as an engine of change in dialectics.

There’s certainly the ideological components, you’re not wrong there, but the reason its bought into is because of class interests.

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It’s more that the US (Canada too) has been at the imperialist stage of capitalism for a century. The fact that many Statesians support this system is because it benefits them materially. It’s logical, and thus trying to view it as irrational behavior leads us to ineffective means of combatting it.

Labor to super-exploit and plantations for cheap resources? Yes, more than ever with how US imperialism is decaying worldwide.

Yep! Cuba seeking nukes was a justified response.

There actually is, Cuba used to be a tremendously popular sugar colony and gambling outpost for the US Empire.

The Cuban Missile Crisis started because the USSR offered nukes to Cuba, and they accepted. Cuba accepted because the US invaded Cuba 1 year earlier in the Bay of Pigs operation. The reason the US hates Cuba so much is because Cuba used to be a US colony with open slavery, run by “gansterismo,” literal Miami gangsters. Further, Obama did not end hostilities towards Cuba, at the same time he was thawing relations, the US was supporting right-wing groups within Cuba to destabilize the state. It was a two-pronged carrot and stick approach, vs. the genocidal blockade currently being carried out.

Blowback season 2 goes over the history of the Cuban revolution and the October Crisis, which is what the Cubans call the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also goes over Operation Anadyr, the soviet mission to give Cuba nukes as detterence from further US invasion, and as a response to NATO missiles in Turkey pointed at Moscow, and encroachment into the GDR.

Sure! Those are good steps. They aren’t complete, though, and that’s why work still has to be done beyond simply saying “men and women are equal legally, so there’s no more problems to be worked out.”

The PCC ended the colonialism of Cuba that was making the US quite a lot of profit, and the Statesian ruling class never forgave the communists.

Sanctions aren’t going to make people overthrow the Cuban government. They will only make the Cuban people defend their socialist project more, while they die of preventable causes due to a lack of critical medical supplies and energy. Thank goodness countries like China are helping Cuba develop sovereignty in the energy sector through solar!

He sees it as an easier way to gain a colony/neocolony. US imperialism is breaking down, so we are seeing a return to overt colonialism in an attempt to retain super profits for the imperial core.

They are generally the ones that benefited from the fascist Batista regime, such as plantation owning slavers. They fled from the Cuban revolution, especially once the Cuban government implemented land reform and gave land to the peasantry.

How do you get people to be “excellent” to each other? Social programs addressing historic inequalities are the solution.

That’s not how quotas work, though. Policies that aim for supporting women and increasing the number of them as a ratio does not mean qualifications do not matter. Performance absolutely counts, but systemic barriers to employment also exist that lower the number of women in fields like tech.

Secondly, the fact that reactionary groups form as a resistence to social progress does not make social progress a bad thing. Again, trying to give full legal equality without addressing lingering impacts of historic issues leads to those issues persisting for far longer than they need to. Under the banner of “equality,” reactionary groups merely defend existing inequality.

The solution is to address historical inequalities that persist to this day actively, through social programs. Legal equality is merely the first step to achieving actual equality.