I would like to give a personal statement to this flier. Know that these statements are my own and in no way connected to the Green Party platform or mission in any way, as it is my personal opinion. For information on what the Green Party stands for and our goals are, we have a party platform decided democratically every convention.
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lmao, what is this bullsh!t.
Part 1: Cuba: Cuba has greatly benefitted from the revolution. Before the control of the PCC, Cuba was a haven for drug trafficking, gambling, and exploitation of natural resources by foreign powers. The exploitation was aided by the Comprador Bourgeois of Cuba on the behalf of the United States elite, ran by middlemen of agricultural companies and the mafia. The transition to go the path of a Communist society has caused literacy to skyrocket in a short time that is among the best in the region, corruption to be drastically reigned in, income equality to be among the best in the Caribbean, and for the near elimination of homelessness and prostitution. Furthermore, compared to nations like Jamaica or Haiti, social conservative attitudes are far less entrenched in the country. Now there has been mistakes done by the Cuban government, like maintaining industry to support the needs of the USSR instead of what’s best for the economy long-term and suppression of indigenous and diasporic religious traditions of the marginalized population in Cuba, but saying that they’ve failed is a lie by a lot of metrics. I find it odd that in these conversations, no blame is put on the sanctions and policies of the Capitalist states in putting Cuba in a state of siege for so long and how some trappings of that has continued in the modern era.
Vuvuzuela: While the Bolivarian Revolution has changed Venezuelan society in what is a net positive since 2002, it can hardly be called Marxism or as strong a transition to Communism. 70% of the economic production is in private enterprises after all, and there exists Venezuelan bourgeois supporters to the Great Patriotic Pole currently in power in Venezuela. Furthermore, they have failed to provide adequate investment to other industries outside natural gas extraction before the commodities bust and attempts by the Imperial core to overthrow the government. A major net positive, aside decreasing inequality and being an ally against reactionary groups in the region, corruption has not been aptly suppressed and controlled among the current government, although it is far better than the previous situation before the Bolivarian revolution.
This flier is dumb, and should not be the main move to run against labor. I will say, in office, I will attempt to implement policies to greatly move Atlasian society to greater liberty by increased worker control, ending classism, and a general organization of society that gets the boot off our necks and rewards the elite. In doing so, I will very much avoid the pitfalls other experiences have gone under.
Oh yeah, considering Fremont is the region with most accountability to its voters and has nationalized industry, among other characteristics, it’s dumb to say that Fremont has been a failure. Not that it’s ideal now, no, but it’s doing alright and I hope to make it better going into parliament.
Now onto Labor statements...
Labor statements are also dumb too. The DA is run by competent people and driven to do good in Atlasia; like the Green Party and Labor. Now are the other two parties right in their beliefs? No, but they’re trying and merely have different sets of people and views.
We need less sectarianism and sh!tflinging in Atlasia tbh, and more debate with FACTS and LOGIC
