Old Guy/Woody/Fat Albert ..... whatever the hell you call yourself today, you wouldn't know a Socialist from a Trotskyite from a Marxist Leninist from a grape. All your comments are based on the Red Scare mindset. It takes away from whatever credibility you have and marks you as a McCarthy style mouth.

Fidel is no angel. He has murdered, and stole in the name of the Revolution. He has also brought some form of stability to his country and managed to outlive the USSR. History will judge him as a unique character. When he dies, most of his revolution will die with him in a mad dash to capitalism. But the seeds of socialist ideal will still be there. It's the way of the world.

For what it's worth, Old Woody Albert, there hasn't been a real "communist" society yet. The Stalinist era destroyed any chance of that. He was just another despot that got hold of a system and destroyed any chance it had of a real try.

Mick