It is difficult to resist pointing out how every demand they've made has been tried and failed to defeat human nature, that every demand has resulted in making things worse. Cuba caused starvation and poverty worse than the govt they replaced. They're rather famous for running child-brothels for Canadian pedophiles in Havana. And the US president wants to normalize relations with them. I met a Cuban escape survivor, a few years ago. Said that starvation is so bad in Cuba that people actually die from hunger. Only place in the Western world where that's true. But, the reality is a secondary (important) issue which distracts from understanding what the Communists want. What their optimistic true believers, who aren't willing to commit murder to get their way, want.
So what are they picturing?
- Electric cars for everyone.
- Electric trains.
- Gap year backpacking hostels everywhere pretty.
- Free education, all the way through PhD level
- Artisan support so artists won't starve
- Food kitchens, free meals
- Free coffee
- Free books and music
- Free healthcare
- Free childcare and support for unwed mothers
- Free housing
- Green renewable energy, and safe nuclear power
- Robots farming food supply
- Most jobs maintenance or healthcare, resulting in extra credits or comforts in life
- No pockets (star trek disease)
Wait, nix #15. Still, I think this is what the commies want. Trouble is, most of this is what we actually had during the 1990's. Or close enough to free that everybody could afford it, even on minimum wage. Now inflation has made minimum wage = starvation. Electric vehicles are technically difficult without overhead wires. Overhead wire electric vehicles, like trains and city trams, are common and reliable and use grid power rather than batteries. Reasonable expectations makes those possible, but California's train to nowhere isn't reasonable. It stops too much, it avoids the intelligent route, and it takes longer than it should, even if it gets built, which it hasn't been. I suppose they could fix that. Or use that track as a supporting route, with the main express running up I-5 like it was supposed to. From LA Grand Central right up 5 to a tunnel through the mountains to San Jose grand central station, and another one connecting that station to Emeryville, which has an express to Sacramento, which has expresses to both Reno and Oregon. Good trains would free people from cars. Nice trains, clean and elegant and comfortable, wouldn't stink like a Greyhound Bus does. Those things are like Submarines that don't get cleaned. I think Communists think things get cleaned via magic, much like maintenance. They keep citing civic pride, which doesn't exist, but they believe in it.
The other thing is they probably imagine bicycle tourism hostels, clean, polite, and well maintained, so people touring the country on their gap year via bicycle have a safe place to sleep and a couple meals. Communists have really strange ideas.
If you imagine all these things are possible, completely opposite of human nature which is more about materialism, rape, murder, arson, child abuse, mass murder, and mayhem, things which are contrary to the kind of serious optimism required to think Communism could work in the first place. Really, communists are completely delusional. In the old days we'd just put them into looney bins, where delusional people belong. And they mostly got what they wanted, there. That and drugs to keep them calm. Communists generally fall back onto creating equal poverty and disarmament so the peasants find it harder to revolt. Then they put in the secret police to disappear and torture anyone who complains things aren't good enough. When you've reached the level of propaganda where you terrorize by making people vanish to scare everyone else, your empire is doomed.
If the Commies read more philosophy by cynics they would probably keep to more reasonable goals. Or become civil engineers, since public utilities benefit everyone. Instead of trying to overcome human nature, they would be improving living conditions, which makes life a little easier, and the chance to be better people instead of worse. And in the real world, that's the best you can hope for.
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