That Cuban health system

March 26th, 2008 tristan Posted in communism, cuba 6 Comments »

Statist socialists tell us its fantastic and a model of what we could do.

This conflicts with reports from actual Cuban patients who have to go through the system. Things like providing your own bedding and even drugs. Filthy wards, old equipment and worse.

I think the Cuban health system is like the Pyongyang metro (or pretty much anything else they let you see in NK). Visitors are only shown two stations which are spectacular and obviously meant to show the superiority of the North Korean political system. The other stations are thought to be just plain, small, concrete buildings with none of the splendour of the two shown for propaganda purposes.

The Cuban health system is probably like this. Outsiders are shown some carefully kept examples of the greatness of Cuban communist health care.
The difference is, many statist leftists are happy to swallow Cuban propaganda, but I doubt many would swallow North Korean propaganda.

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Fascists are left wing:

November 20th, 2007 tristan Posted in communism, fascism, left wing, right wing, tim worstall 11 Comments »

Absolutely.

That is for a certain definition of left-wing which is based on left-wing meaning socialist and anti free-market.

Just more of the absurdity and idiocy of these broad political labels which allow people sharing similar opinions being on different wings of the political spectrum…

Of course, if we take the political compass of left-right economics and authoritarian-libertarian socially, fascism and communism would coincide, they just differ on what differentiates people and what determines their actions - communists take class, fascists take race, blood or nationality…

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