I used to have a book -- a great one I thought (from what I remember)-- Sartre On Cuba by Jean Paul Sartre. It was profound and made many of the points that Little Hawk has made. I do wish I still had it...

There was no way to excuse the reality that was Cuba before Castro. It was a profound example of what can and did go terribly wrong when the excesses of capitalism are allowed to run wild. The violent revolution that was Castro was simply necessary in order to clean the basin of the built up scum. But it has taken too long for the pendulum to swing back to a more centrist position. Sadly, the good aspects of socialism and of capitalism are often tossed out with the washwater. Alas, often the baby is drowned and lost too.

Art Thieme