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Old 22-07-2008, 23:00   #63
andrewb
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Re: is socialism dead? and should we care?

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Originally Posted by steeljack View Post
maybe thats why Cuba has a better literacy rate than the US , and maybe thats why more Cubans have better access to basic free health care than lots of innner city urban Americans.
Maybe , just maybe thats why the folks of Cuba kept Fidel Castro in power for so many years (since Eisenhower was president if I'm not mistaken) and not followed the American capitalistic model placed on neighbouring Haiti
A worse human rights record, don't have proper judicial system, no justice system, most of public living in abject poverty. Are you honestly suggesting we should forfeit all our human rights and justice system, so we can have better literacy rates?
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