To The Atlantic, Media and Others Who Get Antifa Twisted

[ancianita]

20. Cuba is a one party state, a socialist state with province representation from The People.

Decentralization of decisions is the goal, though it's not complete yet. Gradualism seems to be a method that Cubans agree on.

Officially, Cuba's party is communist, but there is no centralized planning for agricultural, business or other sectors. It's not top-down Stalinist, therefore it considers itself socialist and in solidarity with the world's working class oppressed peoples. We wouldn't claim, either, that European states who have different forms of governance are not democratic. Cuba's governance is way more democratic than communist, if you must attach socialism to communism -- which I don't -- and I can sniff out authoritarianism pretty much anywhere.

You realize that the alt-right conflate all socialism with communism, right?

There are two things we must consider: first, Cuba's been under American embargo for so long that its economy has become self-sustaining. Second, Americans just don't know enough about how Cuba has changed to keep anything but our government's old cold war official perspective; for instance, our propaganda claims Cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism, which is no more true than to claim that marijuana is a class 1 controlled substance like heroin.

I saw that Cuban TV has CNN, ESPN (watched a bit of an American baseball game announced in Spanish) telenovellas, music video channels, etc.

I'm not sure what you mean by critical media content. I don't think the Cuban government could get its hands on a lot of Western media sources even if it wanted to, or even if our sources themselves were objective and non-propagandistic.