XPost: can.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   Kim Dobranski aka Chom Noamsky wrote:   
   > One party states generally operate that way, intolerant of dissent. There is   
   > one official ideology, toe the line or get punished.   
      
   Even works if the country has a multi-party system, but one party gets a slim   
   majority and then takes to acting like a dictatorship.   
   See Canada.  See Stephen Harper.   
      
   > The joke is that the revolutionaries never actually consulted with the   
   > population after they overthrew Batista and expelled the Americans, Castro   
   and   
   > buddies singlehandedly decided Cuba would adopt Communism and make it a   
   > socialist state.  No referendum, no social license, no mandate.   
      
   And none of your business . . .   
      
   > At last count there are about 25 Marxist states that have converted or are in   
   > the process of converting back to open market economies... Cuba is now #26.   
      
   Good luck to them.  Along with corporate market incursion comes all the greed   
   and costs associated with profit making.   
   See Canada under the Harper government.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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