You have done zero investigation into how well off Cuban leaders are compared to the average Cuban. You have done zero investigation into how this compares to peer countries.

You just made it up because it sounds like a Bad Country thing, someone told you once that Cuba is a Bad Country, and you never bothered to learn about the place yourself.

[+] Name@feddit.nu -10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ok, so the communist party says who can be in the Nation Assembly. The communist party sits on all the political power just by having the power over appointment. There are no free candidacy for the national assembly, effectively aggregating all power to themselves making them the de facto ruling class. See the issue?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

Still no sources on anything, and you're not even staying on the topic at hand.

Cuba now has a privileged elite defending it's grip on power against the poor majority

Source this.

[–] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

how does any of that make them "bourgeoisie" or the "privileged elite"? Nations have different political systems, you shouldn't expect them all to be organized like the corrupt American system unless you are an imperialist. And it's particularly offensive to want to impose American political values on Cuba, a former American colony who righteously broke free of those chains.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

The people in powerful positions in the Communist Party got there because people voted them in. What’s hard to understand here?

You know who is the ruling class in capitalist countries, right? It’s the capitalists. It doesn’t matter how egalitarian the political system appears on paper, because de-facto the capitalist class rules.