I mean repression in Cuba NOW. I actually know little about Cuba, have no real opinion on the matter one way or the other given that I have not been there and don't even read Spanish, and was simply pulling it out as an example of one of many aliberal societies.
Though it is telling that you are focussing on Cuba rather than China. :)
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
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> Which at least implies more relative sympathy for the
> regime judged to be
> "probably" less repressive. In fact, the
> repression conducted by Mussolini's
> paramilitary blackshirts and the Italian fascist state was
> aimed at the
> mass-based trade unions and socialist parties while the
> Cuban repression was
> directed, for the most part, against a much smaller number
> of supporters of
> the old regime and of US efforts to isolate and strangle
> the country and
> roll back the social gains of the 1959 revolution.
>
> A political neophyte in Chile, noting Chris' comment
> above, might have well
> been inclined to support the pro-fascist Pinochet junta as
> a "lesser evil"
> against the pro-Cuban government of Salvador Allende and
> the workers,
> peasants, and students who supported it.
>
>
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