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>What's the prison population of Cuba in % compared with the US?
Boy, you bring this shit up again? As I told the ansoc that did it last time, we don't support the prison state in the US, nor is the prison state in any way a capitalist or libertarian invention, so your tu quoque entirely misses the point.
>Why? What's so bad about people democratically managing their communities and workplaces? It's surely less alienating than being a cog in the capitalist machine.
If they don't own the damn thing, then they have no business democratically managing the damn thing either. You don't get something for nothing, not in nature, and not in society, unless you're a parasite.
>Go there and talk to people.
One of the most fulfilled guys I know is a worker. Turns out he really enjoys fixing things. Is he still a prophet of yours, or do you only accept the Revelation from workers that agree with you?
>Robbed of what exactly? What did people have before the Cuban Revolution?
Freedom.
>Again, an AnCap defending the property or a few casino and plantation owners over the vast majority of the population.
Where did I say that the property of the small guy may be violated at will? Or do you imply that there were no property owners in Cuba, except for rich capitalists? If so, back this claim up.
>Because South Korea is objectively the richer country with a great access to modern consumer goods, video games, fashion, etc?
And why can't the north compete? It used to be more developed than the south in the past.
>Of course, if the sanctions on oil would end, North Koreans could actually have a diverse diet, run all their factories and leave power on.
North Korea had half a century to build healthy trade relations with Russia, China, and dozens of other communist states. In that time, it easily could've created a powerful economy, if communism was working properly. That did not happen. Half a century of communism and capitalism being at a stalemate, so that capitalist countries could not just cut off North Korea - which has a wide border with China and a decent coastline - from its communist allies, and you're telling me it's embargos that are to blame for the plight of North Korea?
>However, these links also debunk the notions are North Koreans are not allowed to leave. They do travel to China, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc.
Not really. They don't show that this is not just a special privilege granted to a few. Or at least the first link doesn't, the second one isn't working. The one functioning link is not contradicted at all by the accounts of refugees that I've read.
>if you want North Koreans to see the world tell Western countries to lift their travel ban.
The western world takes in refugees from North Korea, but wouldn't allow travellers? Yeah, sure.
>First off, the FRG tried to deliberately drain them of brain power and labor power, secondly it was totally normal to get a certification to leave the country in the GDR, most applications were granted. Was it much easier for an American citizen to travel to the USSR? I would expect not.
They shot people trying to cross the border. The FRG didn't. You're telling me they did it because the escapees had no valid certificate? They shoot people over missing certificates and that's supposed to exonerate them? Can't you come up with better apologetics?
>The GDR was not necessarily worse than the FRG, it had a higher growth rate. It just got fucked over with reparations and didn't get the Marshal Plan gibs.
Yes, for almost fifty years. Rain always falls on the communist, I know that already. Bad harvests cause famines in Russia and China, but no dust bowl would ever happen in America.