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As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour

As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour : Peoples Dispatch

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/05/as-the-us-deliberately-starves-the-cuban-people-solidarity-activists-launch-campaign-to-send-flour/

The People’s Forum, based in the United States, has launched a solidarity campaign with Cuban neighbors living under brutal US blockade

As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour : Peoples Dispatch

106 comments

imnotfromkaliningrad

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theres still not enough suffering in the world, give us more!

the collective american political apparatus

AndyCapps

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Yo I have a trip to Cuba in like two weeks. What should I be doing?

MeowZedong

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I believe RevLeft recently had guests on and they mentioned even basic medical supplies such as ibuprofen were hard to come by. Maybe it would be possible to bring some of these types of supplies too?

TrippyFocus

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If you’re able to please donate, people’s dispatch is matching all donations up to $100k.

SpiderFarmer

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Bumping this. Ironically blew the rest of my funds on groceries last week.

Name

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Well it's a one party dictatorship, and even though the sanctions at first might not have been for a good reason, the responsibility lies on the Cuban leadership.

MattsAlt

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So Cuba should dissolve a government widely approved of by the people and return to client state gang run institutions for the ability to receive food? You're a fucking idiot. Calling people sith lords, please learn to engage in world politics by using meaningful vocabulary instead of trying to equate everything to your favorite work of fiction

Name

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GarbageShoot

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It shouldn't be hard to understand that what the US cares about are the rights of capital and of empire, not human rights

LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA

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Hard to tell how popular the government is if you get jailed for voicing disagreement now isn't it?

good thing that doesn't happen then, huh?

BeamBrain

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No, you see, Display name@feddit.nu is the one true interpreter of the desires of all people. We should just let them pick every government since clearly they know best.

ExotiqueMatter

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Hard to tell how popular the government is if you get jailed for voicing disagreement now isn’t it?

[citation needed]

What I’ve seen about the demand for the sanctions to be lifted it’s granting the population human rights regarding political freedoms. Would that mean the dissolvement of the government?

You've been given a link to a declassified CIA document in which they admit that the true objective of the sanctions is to have the Cuben government overthrown, did you read anything any of us have given you?

MeowZedong

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...did you read anything any of us have given you?

Lol, you know liberals choose not to read. I'd poke fun by saying they can't read, but that would be giving them too much credit.

yogthos

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when you definitely understand what the word dictatorship means 😂

imnotfromkaliningrad

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i mean, cuba is a dictatorship of the proletariat. libs just think thats a bad thing.

yogthos

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well yeah because libs are just temporarily inconvenienced billionaires

Sleazy_Albanese

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Name

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Meh, can you really say that it's the proletarian dictatorship anymore when Cuba now has a privileged elite defending it's grip on power against the poor majority? It's more like they have become the bourgeoisie.

imnotfromkaliningrad

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cuba is literally the most egalitarian nation in the americas. what are you talking about?

Name

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How do you mean it is egalitarian?

imnotfromkaliningrad

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in the sense of the abolishment of class oppression

Name

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Ah okey ^^ but that's my point. The revolution abolished the then existing classes but now the party has cemented into the now ruling class. They enjoy the privileges and aggregate all the power to themselves where the now again born under class can't do anything. I understand what you mean but I think we have to see Cuba for the state its in, not the promise of what it would become.

420blazeit69

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I'm sure you have some kind of a source for such an outlandish claim. How much time do you spend looking at the compensation of Cuban politicians?

Name

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You could probably understand the reasoning if you read the rest of the thread. What kind of compensation do you have in mind?

420blazeit69

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I've read the thread. You have no source and you have not even tried to educate yourself on the basics of the Cuban government. You invented an accusation out of thin air and are somehow surprised people don't uncritically believe it.

Name

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Alright, what do you request a source for? Can't say I'm surprised at others not agreeing in a discussion. Do you usually get surprised by that?

Name

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Sorry, what? :P

imnotfromkaliningrad

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you are being criticized for using the word "dictatorship" in a liberal sense, a sense that doesnt respect material reality due to being idealist.

Name

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Ah thanks. Maybe should have used the proper authoritarian. Dictatorship is just a much easier and more widely recognized term no?

imnotfromkaliningrad

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well, every state is authoritarian. thats part of the self preservation of any governance, be it progressive or reactionary. if you wanna abolish states alltogether ask the anarchists, since i am an ml and think that authoritarian measures are good for the liberation of mankind.

Name

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Haha yeah in a sense maybe. But the authoritarian meaning is that there's no free or equal competition for the power so I mean there's quite a difference between states where there are authoritan and democratic countries.

GarbageShoot

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equal competition for the power

Show me any state where there is an "equal competition for power" in any general sense. The Democrats and Republicans having similar degrees of power means nothing but a duopoly if they each exist above democracy as private entities (and they do) and there is no "equal" competition with more progressive groups.

IHATESMOKINGCHRONIC

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Heidegger and Hannah Arendt will never answer for the crimes they have committed against your brainpan

FanonFan

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:michael-laugh:

queermunist

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Exact same logic Israel uses to starve Gaza.

Name

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How so?

queermunist

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Sanctions are always meant as collective punishment, it's a siege warfare tactic. The goal is to torture innocent Cuban people for not overthrowing their government, starve them until they have no choice but to destroy the revolution. America has even directly admitted it:

to weaken the economic life of Cuba . . . [to deny] money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”

This is the same policy as in Gaza, to starve the people until they turn their backs on the enemy.

Name

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That is not entirely true. It depends on the kinds of sanctions. This is why modern sanctions have shifted from punishing the citizens in hope of them rising against the regime to pin targeting the leaders and the ruling class.

The catastrophe and starvation in Iraq (I think it was Iraq) changed how sanctions were used.

queermunist

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Does that have fucking anything to do with Cuba?

Name

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Well you claimed that sanctions always are meant as a collective punishment?

queermunist

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Sanctions on economies are collective punishment.

You've sidestepped the problem, which is that there is a siege war being waged on Cuba and they've done nothing to deserve it.

FunkyStuff

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Can you elaborate on how modern sanctions have materially changed from how they were pre-Iraq?

420blazeit69

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You're going to bat for the collective punishment of the Cuban people. When is the collective punishment of civilians appropriate in your mind?

You're also supporting a policy that has failed to achieve its stated result for 65 years. What other long-term policy failures do you support?

Name

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Can't say I would have objected against sanctions against Nazi Germany. Does that suffice?

Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?

420blazeit69

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Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?

You excused it by blaming it on Cuba. There's no meaningful difference between that and support. Any worthwhile take on the embargo starts with ending it immediately, and you can't even manage that.

And sure, I would support sanctions against Nazi Germany. But until Cuba turns fascist, invades its neighbors, and starts a genocide, it's nowhere near a situation where sanctions are appropriate.

Name

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420blazeit69

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Use your words

If you think there's some meaningful difference, let's hear what it is. "I don't support this but it's totally their fault" is not convincing.

Name

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Of course there's a difference with seeing something from an objective viewpoint and agreeing or disagreeing with it?

420blazeit69

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"It's their fault" is not an objective viewpoint. You are assigning blame to Cuba and excusing the U.S.

Kumikommunism

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Are you a sith lord?

Well, if your horrible, uneducated, moronic, murderous political ideas didn't already tell me that you have the mental capacity of someone who derives their political opinions from children's media...There it is.

GarbageShoot

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Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?

I hate when people try to be slick, and it's even more annoying when they suck at it:

Well it's a one party dictatorship, and . . . the responsibility lies on the Cuban leadership.

All this ignoring that you are misrepresenting both Cuba and the effect of the sanctions.

Name

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This obviously doesn't mean that I support the sanctions and you are intentionally misleading in saying so.

GarbageShoot

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"It's a Bad Country and the actions taken against it by the US are the fault of the Bad Country's leadership, not the US"

"Oh, but I'm not supporting the US, merely absolving them of guilt"

Chickenshit nonsense

Ram_The_Manparts

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Reddit brain

keepcarrot

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Makes pretty extreme implication

Denies any such implication and is insulted that anyone could read it such a way

???

Coward

ExotiqueMatter

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You do realize that kind of sanctions affect the poor civilians far more than the elite, if it even affect the elite at all, right?

Cowbee

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How is the US engaging in a blockade around a country with a popular government the fault of the Cuban leadership?

DBVegas

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This might be the dumbest fucking thing I've read in awhile.

Alsephina

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Yeah they should've had a dictatorship of two genocidal imperialist parties instead like the US

davel

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Well it’s a one party dictatorship

Yes, the dictatorship of the party of the working class, or in other words a proletarian democracy.

Meanwhile, whether one party or two or a hundred, we have a dictatorship of the capitalist class, or in other words a bourgeois democracy.

plinky

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On being sanctioned as terrorist country? are you for fucking real?

Name

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I guess you could call stomping out peaceful protests with violence an act of terrorism? But that's not the entire reason lol

plinky

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I guess you could call george floyd or la riots stomping a terrorist act thonk

but for real, islands can't survive on their own, if tomorrow uk stopped all trade, it will start starving in 2 months. usa sanctions are extra cruel with both finance and shipping conditions

Name

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imnotfromkaliningrad

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cuba and korea are already democratic, as in the sense of true democracy, workplace democracy. liberal "democracy" is nothing more than a cover for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and foreign imperialists. just look at cuba and korea under their respective american and japanese occupations. thats what the liberal west wants to return them to.

Name

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Well "true" democracy is a rather open definition lol. With a minimalist definition enough even North Korea is a democracy based on them holding elections but I mean that is obviously not the case. Liberal democracy is just electoral democracy+ rule of law. You can have liberal democracy without capitalism and the bourgeoisie, just look at the Scandinavian countries before the neoliberalists took hold.

imnotfromkaliningrad

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you unironically did the "socialism is when the nordic model" meme, lmaooo

sorry, i tried taking you seriously, but this is just too much

ExotiqueMatter

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Sorry but Scandinavian countries were still capitalist and still had a bourgeois class even before the neoliberals came around.

plinky

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like how usa sanctions saudia arabia or uae or qatar or azerbaijan or japan over not moving towards democracy?

Name

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plinky

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Cause japan is one party state?

Submit or else, good to see gunboat diplomacy is a thing of the past

davel

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Yes they can easily have the sanctions lifted by betraying the people of Cuba and allowing Global North neocolonizers to resume their pillaging of the nation.

What a dumbass turbolib.

GarbageShoot

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However what is important to remember is that the sanctions are imposed based on the regimes actions against it's population

I don't know every single sanction against the DPRK, but over the last 40 years the sanctions have all been in connection to nuclear development and things like that. Also, it's rich that you talk about communists being hypocrites while you take western powers at their word for why they are imposing sanctions that starve people by your own admission. The US has done and is doing much crueler things to the people of these states than the states themselves have ever done in any but the most unhinged fantasies.

Ram_The_Manparts

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picard

Maturin

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PIGPOOPBALLS

MeowZedong

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Literally the only answer this one deserved.

stmcld

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Very true, it seemed like bad faith arguments. But I've learnt quite a lot from the answers to that user's asinine questions, and I'm sure I'm not the only one

MeowZedong

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For sure. It can be useful for others, even if the person you're interacting with has a rock for a brain.

frippa

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The communist party in Cuba (like every other party) can't "advertise" itself, it's in the constitution ffs. If you wanted to pick a socialist country to portray as a "one party scary dictatorship" Cuba is the least fit. Cuba is a zero-party democracy in a way.

dRLY

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Obvious troll is obvious. If the overwhelming number of Cuban people really and truly didn't support socialism. Then they would have taken over in a new revolution as they did getting rid of the US puppet state the last time. They have stood firm despite the literal attempts of US lead colour revolutions and refuse to be forced to bow to the self-appointed global police state that is the US. They aren't the ones that should change to serve the rich fucks that steal from nations across the world. It is those rich fucks that should be put in the dirt so that peoples across the world could live their lives without fear.

keepcarrot

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Most countries are actually fine with political parties on the ballot receiving funding, material/technical support, and terrorist attacks from a foreign power, it's just the perfidious Cubans banning other parties that do this!

PaulSmackage

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i-voted