Jun 26, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 13 segments
rump's war in Iran has created rifts in the Republican Party, meanwhile DSA victories in New York are causing panic in the ruling class—At the same time, US imperialism is tightening its stranglehold…
The way the American capitalist politicians try to pose things, they try to compare the United States with all the other countries and say how great the United States is.
The fact is the entire world is dominated by capitalism.
If we had a socialist society, a socialist society would be above the most advanced capitalist society.
Nobody got there that far.
But there were a lot of improvements made with the planned economy.
And that's certainly true with Cuba.
Because when you look at the situation in Cuba, the Cuban revolution, you can't compare Cuba, an underdeveloped country, a poor country, a country that was basically a colony of the United States.
You can't compare that.
with the mother country, the imperialist country, the United States, which reaps all sorts of super profits from its investments around the world.
You have to compare Cuba with the countries in the Caribbean, the countries in Latin America, the other underdeveloped countries, which are basically targeted by U.S. imperialism.
And you could see under the effects of the Cuban Revolution with the limits of the planned economy that they had there, there was enormous progress made.
There was progress made in terms of establishing full employment.
There was progress made in terms of eliminating homelessness.
The healthcare system was one of the best healthcare systems in the world.
In some aspects, it was actually even better than the United States in some aspects, but It was way better than anything that existed in that area.
These are not places where the standard of living is very good.
Do you know how many people are living on the streets in the most desperate, barbaric conditions, trying to survive without a roof over their head? And in Cuba, this tiny island with a fraction of the resources, you know, they abolished homelessness, they abolished illiteracy, they cured all of these diseases, the advances and all these things.
Like just from the perspective of the struggles facing the American working class, you can see those advances mean something.
And of course, what U.S. imperialism has been doing to the island, strangling it systematically for nearly seven decades now.
I mean, you can see that, and we should make clear, for one, at the outset, we should make clear that the revolutionary communists of America, the revolutionary communists international stands for the unconditional defense of the Cuban revolution.
The way the American capitalist politicians try to pose things, they try to compare the United States with all the other countries and say how great the United States is.
The fact is the entire world is dominated by capitalism.
If we had a socialist society, a socialist society would be above the most advanced capitalist society.
Nobody got there that far.
But there were a lot of improvements made with the planned economy.
And that's certainly true with Cuba.
Because when you look at the situation in Cuba, the Cuban revolution, you can't compare Cuba, an underdeveloped country, a poor country, a country that was basically a colony of the United States.
You can't compare that.
with the mother country, the imperialist country, the United States, which reaps all sorts of super profits from its investments around the world.
You have to compare Cuba with the countries in the Caribbean, the countries in Latin America, the other underdeveloped countries, which are basically targeted by U.S. imperialism.
And you could see under the effects of the Cuban Revolution with the limits of the planned economy that they had there, there was enormous progress made.
There was progress made in terms of establishing full employment.
There was progress made in terms of eliminating homelessness.
The healthcare system was one of the best healthcare systems in the world.
In some aspects, it was actually even better than the United States in some aspects, but It was way better than anything that existed in that area.
These are not places where the standard of living is very good.
Do you know how many people are living on the streets in the most desperate, barbaric conditions, trying to survive without a roof over their head? And in Cuba, this tiny island with a fraction of the resources, you know, they abolished homelessness, they abolished illiteracy, they cured all of these diseases, the advances and all these things.
Like just from the perspective of the struggles facing the American working class, you can see those advances mean something.
And of course, what U.S. imperialism has been doing to the island, strangling it systematically for nearly seven decades now.
I mean, you can see that, and we should make clear, for one, at the outset, we should make clear that the revolutionary communists of America, the revolutionary communists international stands for the unconditional defense of the Cuban revolution.
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