The Effects of Communism in Cuba
The idea of communism was originally created from the writings of Plato. He envisioned a society where everyone has equal ownership of everything, which he believed would create long-lasting peace. Karl Marx was inspired by Plato and wanted to put his teaching and ideas into action. The main flaw in communism that Plato did not address is that because everything was run by the state, corruption in the government was common. Communism was not executed properly by the governments that attempted to utilize it. One of the countries that had become communist was Cuba. The people of Cuba were thrown into constant fear of the Cold War getting hot and new regulations that changed their lives drastically. Cuba,
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One of the main conflicts that arose in Cuba was the rapidly declining economy. Cuban farmers lost all of their land and were forced to work on much smaller plots given to them by the state. Because of this, the agricultural production decreased, which brought down Cuba’s economy with it. In Marc Frank’s Cuban Revelations, he says “Some 70 percent of the land in Cuba is owned by the state, making it the largest unproductive landowner in Latin America when Raul took over” (116). The Cuban government began filtering things on the news to make the people believe different things were happening around them than what actually was happening. Back when Fidel Castro first took control of Cuba in 1959, he envisioned the same utopia slowly forming in front of him that Plato had first described in The Laws (Pipes 1). Unfortunately, he formed a government full of corrupt and greedy individuals to help him accomplish his goal of creating a peaceful and happy society. The reality of what was happening in Cuba was far from what had been promised by the Cuban government. Hospitals that supposedly offered free care only did so with their friends, family, and powerful politicians. Also, due to the farmers …show more content…
The whole world fared that a third World War may happen soon, and nuclear weapons may be used. The U.S. eventually put an embargo on Cuba, which disallowed all trade and travel with each other. Not only was Cuba’s economy hurt from this, but they lost a good ally as well. In Jeffrey Cunningham’s Cuba Libre, he describes the break of the U.S. and Cuba relations: “the United States went from being Cuba’s liberator, benefactor, overseer, and military, business, and diplomatic partner, to principal foe” (Cunningham 49). Recently, the embassies in both countries have been reopened, which marks an important point in restoring the U.S. and Cuba relations. It was not long before it that Fidel Castro was replaced by his brother, Raul Castro, who quickly began to change many things in Cuba to improve the country’s economy and living conditions. Many regulations that limited the people were abolished, and freedom was given back to the country. Karl Vick and Dolly Mascarenas in Cuba on The Cusp describe the slowly mending relationship between the two countries by saying that “A quarter-century later, Washington and Havana finally agreed to acknowledge that things may have changed” (Mascarenas and Vick 2). Although the relations are slowly forming back together now, the U.S. and Cuba’s past will not soon be forgotten by
In the past fifty years we have witnessed the end of the cold war, the end of communism in a vast majority of nations as well as the rise of the United States to being the sole world power. But while the world has greatly changed over the past half-a-century, there has been little change in the Cuban-American relationship. Since the rise of Fidel Castro to power in the early nineteen fifties, the United States has all but cut off all relations with the Cuban government. It has now been thirty-nine years since the United States first imposed its various sanctions on the Cuban government and even though Cuba has faced great hardship and misfortune in recent years due to these sanctions, the United States to this day is still
The U.S.’s relationship with Cuba has been arduous and stained with mutual suspicion and obstinateness, and the repeated U.S. interventions. The Platt agreement and Castro’s rise to power, served to introduce the years of difficulty to come, while, the embargo the U.S. placed on Cuba, enforced the harsh feelings. The two major events that caused the most problems were the Bays of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Fidel Castro made Cuba the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere. Castro made many atrocious decisions, including hurting many Cubans. Fidel Castro had a significant impact on the 1960’s because he blamed hardship on the United States, which cost billions. Castro not only blamed the hardship, he also enslaved his own people.
Communism is a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. The idea of communism started in the 19th century by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engals. When communism first started it was an idea of a society based on common ownership of property. That idea eventually turned political and communism turned into a government. There have been communist groups in Cuba since the early 1920’s and it eventually grew into the only political party in the country. Over the years there have been many debates on what is the goal of communism in Cuba. The majority of people believe that communism
Pre-Revolutionary Cuba was under rule of a dictatorship, Fulgencio Batista. Foreigners saw Cuba as a land enchantment and as paradise. People visited the casinos and there was a substantial amount of prostitution. For the native’s of Cuba, there was an economic imbalance between the social classes. Cubans had various reasons for disliking their current government. For example, they were under Batista’s rule and the United States had a large amount of influence on what happened in Cuba. This lead to a feeble economy and government, many would wonder why the economy was weak even though Cuba was a hot spot for tourism. With the thriving tourism market, there were large amounts of unequal distribution of wealth. With this Cuba had such a vast difference between social classes that eventually led to the now infamous Cuban Revolution.
During the 1950’s, Cuba was on the brink of revolution. The nation, which had suffered numerous corrupt and oppressive governmental regimes, fell victim to yet another when Fulgencio Batista seized power under a military coup in March of 1952. A cry for a just Cuba, that was economically, politically, and socially free continued to echo throughout the island. In 1959, a group of radical revolutionaries, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, overthrew the Batista dictatorship and put in place the political and social structures that exist in Cuba to this day.
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During the Cold War, relations between Cuba and the United States were icy. Cuba was allied with the USSR, America’s enemy, and was well within their sphere of influence. With events like the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis happening on their soil, Cuba was at the center of the Cold War. Between ideological differences and their alliance with Russia, Cuba became an enemy of America as well. It took the efforts of ten American presidents, six Popes, and countless other actors, but Cuba and America are finally in the process of normalizing relations. There is still work to be done, but the path is clear and the time is right. However, one cannot simply ignore the last fifty years. In that time, millions of lives were affected by the lack of social, economic, and political ties between the U.S. and Cuba. In this paper, I will analyze the last fifty years of U.S. - Cuban relations by looking at the involved actors, their means, and their values and interests through the lenses of two paradigms, realism and constructivism.
In the recent months, the media has been in a frenzy with the topic of the new emerging relations evolving between the United States and Cuba. This new development, following merely years after Raul Castro was succeeded by his brother Fidel, prompted an inquiry. Why new relations now? Has there been a significant current event to prompt the end to a 50 year embargo? Is Cuba becoming more liberal? Or is the United States merely become more sensible? In essence, we are aiming to unearth the underlying forces this modern direction of joint Cuban and U.S forces.
After coming to power in 1959 with the aim of making radical change to the country. He promised to end inequality, corruption and the economic dependency on USA. With these aims, he implemented economic policies to generate economic growth. The ups and downs of Cuba’s economic performance had not affected the state’s considerable investment in social reform, foreign aid and military involvement. Underpinned by long term credit and trade agreements with USSR, the Cubans had achieved standards of health and literacy rivaling those of developed countries.
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After it became officially globally acknowledged that Cuba was in fact a communist state and was being led through a dictatorship run by Castro, it did not take long before powerful enemies and essential allies were formed. The act of seizing all foreign land with none or very little compensation was received with great hostility amongst those who lost in their property through this process, and probably the reaction that had the biggest impact on Cuba’s economy was that of the US. Castro’s communistic policies did not of course help calm this resentment and also took part in leading to the establishment of trade embargos with Cuba from the US. This meant that Cuba would now lose a very valuable buyer of their precious sugar, [5] but they did however gain another one, a powerful nation that shared quite similar Marxist ideals and were quick to form an alliance with the Cubans, the USSR.