He sure liked ‘Lifestyle Inequality’ He and his family lived like kings while his people where beaten, brutalized and starved to death. Robinson is an idiot liberal
Is that WHY Fidel owned a private island paradise vacation home, had many mansions, a yacht, and many, many 100s of millions of USA dollars socked away, as the populace starved and lived in wretched conditions?
Well, Eugene Robinson is a useless idiot.
I wonder if Robinson thinks that Castro lived in a hut like the millions of poor Cubans who suffered under his Communist policies.
Absolute Malarky!
Total Horse$hit from the filthy Leftist.
Castro lived like a king.
“True believer” is what I’d call the saps that fall for the communist marketing plan, not the ones on top that know what their doing.
Communists promise economic equality but they can only do that by eliminating property rights (which includes your cash) and distributing “fairly”.
What that means, in effect, is the gov (more importantly, those running the gov) own EVERYTHING, keep what they want for themselves and toss the scraps to you and me.
Fidel and his family knew/know EXACTLY what they’re doing.
True believers are those that actually BELIEVE the commie tripe.
So why was he rich while the rest of the country was poor?
He was a true communist leader. He takes 98 out of 100 while graciously allowing the peasants to share the 2.
I’ll go to a proven leftist moron like Eugene Robinson for my research on Fidel Castro, next time I feel a need to check what I already know. I know I simply must be missing some glimmer of wonderfulness and altruism from an otherwise ruthless mass-murderer, terrorist, and thief.
You want to see income inequality? Take a look at Brazil.
This article apparently features a new meme of the left: “Fidel Castro was the fiery revolutionary communist who was too committed to an ‘antiquated’ version of Communism. Raul is a pragmatic, modern reformer, who will gradually move Cuba to a kinder gentler form of Communism, if we only placate him.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket...
Fidel Castro is not really dead. He’s actually working as a cashier at a small truck stop outside Adair, Oklahoma. Jimmy Hoffa owns the place. Jim Morrison works the parts counter and Elvis runs the diner next door.
I read it on the internet so it must be true...
Castro didn't like "income equality" when he was at the bottom.
So, he got enough people to revolt against Batista, then installed himself in Batista's place.
All he did was depose one tyrant, and replace him with another tyrant -- himself.
Eugene unnecessarily proves yet again that he is a total idiot, like all leftists.
Castro loved income inequality as long as the Castros lived like kings while the people starved.
Orwell nailed the commies dead on in Animal Farm making them the pigs.
Income equality is a bad thing. The more equal incomes are, the more rapidly they will approach zero.
Leftists don’t care about income inequality. They care about people doing things they didn’t authorize and don’t control. That drives them bonkers. Some of them will shoot you to make you stop.
***...the way some people are getting rich. He didn’t like it one bit.***
So he ended up one of the richest men in the world, with 11 million slaves to do his bidding and an entire island and a smaller one for his “kingdom”.