[Article "Forget Fidel Castro’s policies. What matters is that he was a dictator"]

@onu labu

oh don't go breaking Jeremy's heart.

There are harrowing examples of governments coming to power under capitalism and being overthrown by force or political subversion instigated by the US ruling class when such governments attempted to take a decisive left turn.

There are however no examples of decent, egalitarian societies being built in countries which preserved intact the largely illusory freedoms that characterise liberal democracy. Notable among these is so-called freedom of the press, which in practice under capitalism largely consists of allowing a rich, self- serving minority to dominate the media system and pollute the public mind with whatever lies, slanders, trivia and illusions best serve to sustain the grip on wealth and political power of the ruling class.