Liberty Alone

James Schneider points me at Danny Finkelstein’s list of why Castro is no hero.

I’ve also come across this which debunks many of the left’s apologies of Castro.

Lastly, here’s an economist who’s recently been to Cuba.

So, unless the program of the left is mass poverty, a rich elite abusing their power, the enslavement of minorities and executing dissidents, unless the left supports a clamp down on freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to trade and freedom of movement, unless it is sufficient to spout hollow rhetoric whilst oppressing ordinary people, Castro is no hero of the left, he’s only a hero of the despot and tyrant, of the power hungry oligarch.

I do not believe, unlike some, that the modern left wants these things. Of course, there will always be some, who see the opportunities that socialism and the modern left give for gaining power, but members of the movement as a whole, however misguided their policies be, do not want these things. Instead they seem driven by anti-American zeal and factional loyalty to utter such idiotic support for the monsters their movement has created.

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