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Fidel Castro's legacy: beyond human rights clichés : Comments

By Dorothea Anthony, published 29/11/2016

The present language of human rights cannot adequately capture the types of rights that exist in the type of society that Cuba represents, namely, a socialist society.

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So a mate of Stalin, lover of firing squads and raper of the economy provides special "Leftie" rights; being an oxygen thief should be a crime.

No doubt Dorothea feels all superior but such superiority leads to such as the thousands of drownings in the Indian Ocean and a collapse in Venezuela.
Posted by McCackie, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 7:43:10 AM
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Dorothea, Castro amassed a fortune, had yachts and lots of lovely girl friends. He and his commo mates exploited everyone else in Cuban society and held them in poverty by crude violence.
However as you lecture in law why would that concern you? Truth, justice, do not make me laugh lawyers are the very epitome of greed, corruption and dishonesty and no one trusts you.
Posted by JBowyer, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 8:14:45 AM
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Ye gods! I didn’t think such distorted views of the world still existed. “The most prominent right in socialism is freedom from economic exploitation”! Like, “when are they going to do something for the workers?” as we used to chant at school 60 years ago. Well, they did do something. They tried socialism and communism, where everything was done ‘for the workers’. But then everything led to pretty much nothing. The workers finished up worse off. One could be charitable and say that socialism once looked attractive in principle and perhaps should be tried out to see if it might work. Been there, done that – it doesn’t. The empirical evidence is unequivocal. Put in the terms of Ms Anthony’s world view, workers are far better off when they do get ‘exploited’ economically. How many experiments need to be conducted to convince the likes of Ms Anthony? As for Cuba’s suppression of its people by a communist dictator, it’s the pattern everywhere and the reasons are obvious. A merciless iron fist is the only way to control a population deprived of the benefits of modern life by enforcement of a system based on pure economic ignorance.
Posted by Tombee, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 8:19:30 AM
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It is unsurprising that human rights will reflect the values of those who pronounce them since they are conjured out of thin air. They are a kind of wishful thinking promoted by societies that are well off. Thus we may pronounce them all we like but they will never cut ice in societies at the lower end of the economic scale.
Posted by Sells, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 8:31:14 AM
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Why anybody would want to discuss a rotten mongrel like Castro is beyond me. He was a vicious animal.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 9:48:06 AM
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Quote: The most prominent right in socialism is freedom from economic exploitation.

Does that include exploitation by the ruling class, or are socialist rulers by definition exempt from being categorized as exploiters? I heard the Castros lived quite well, with private house and resorts all over the island.

Didn't a guy named Orwell write a book about this? Consider Castro as napoleon and Ms Anthony as squealer, and the article makes sense.
Posted by kactuz, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:02:57 AM
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