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Socialist Cuba has managed to survive horrendous attacks
from the U.S. Only 90 miles south of the Florida coast of the
U.S., Cuba has the highest life expectancy in Latin America and
the Caribbean, as well as the highest literacy rate. Cuba’s infant
mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S. Cuba sends more
medical aid abroad than any country on earth. Cuba even provides
medical training for people around the world, where they
can come and be taught medicine for free on the condition that
they use their knowledge to provide care in their home communities
to people who have not able to obtain it.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also stands tall
as an example of a country that has resisted imperialist aggression
and instituted socialist measures. The DPRK has provided
universal education, housing, health care and literacy for its
population. It has stood up to intense U.S. interference and the
threat of invasion by tens of thousands of U.S. troops right on
its border.
Communist parties still retain their monopoly on power
in China and Vietnam following the revolutions in those two
countries. Decades of risky market experimentation, however,
have allowed the growth of a capitalist class and placed China’s
socialist system in a precarious position. At the same time, the
working class in China has also grown enormously, along with
the development of the means of production. U.S. imperialism
tries to undermine the Chinese Communist Party because it
is the main organized political force in China that protects the
remaining elements of that country’s socialist system. A full
counterrevolution in China and the removal of the CPC from
power would have devastating consequences for the well-being
of China’s one-billion-plus workers and farmers.
The corporate media, which is owned by the very people
Marxists seek to overthrow, would like workers to believe that
the defeat of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
represents a failure of Marxism. A closer analysis of history,
however, demonstrates that it was the intense economic, po-
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