I would like to answer Anna’s question,
Of the two, which should of the US be more accepting, dictatorship or communism?
I think that the US should be more accepting of communism because it allows people to be equal where as with a dictator or military coup only what the dictator says goes and there are very few people on top that have all the money leaving most of the population with nothing. Another thing is that countries almost always become communist/socialist by them selves, but the US forced many to get dictators and started many coups. I can’t think of any countries that elected to get dictators or military coups but there have been communist and socialist governments that won elections fair and square. I want to clarify that I don’t agree with communism, but I defiantly think that it is a better option than a dictatorship and/or military coup where people are killed and tortured for disagreeing. (Not that this does not happen in communism, but to a lesser degree.) Also this quote from Castro stuck out to me “imperialism examines geography, analyzes the number of cannons, of planes, of tanks, the positions. The revolutionary examines the social composition of the population. The imperialists don’t give a damn about how the population there thinks or feels.” I realize that this is very biased coming from a revolutionary, but I also think that there is a lot of truth in it.
Also, I completely agree with Alec about the developing countries.
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject:
it's a shame no one will read this. i should start posting earlier.
But this reading i enjoyed because it said something different from the others. It was the first one that was more about Latin America then the U.S.. The climate in Latin American nations were 'right' for a coup to be held. Does this mean that they would have happened without U.S. involvement? These 'political experts' all point at the reasons why coups happened during the cold war. How much of it would have happened without U.S. intervention.
In response to June: I definitely think that dictators are easier for the U.S. to control then communism, but i also think it is a worse form of government. If the U.S. had not installed dictators in all so many countries, maybe they would be more prosperous, albeit more socialist nations. Dictators in Latin America have kept the continent back many years. It is still a tough choice for the U.S. because some of the countries it intervened in (not all) were definitely becoming more communist, and may have meant less power for the U.S. in the cold war.
Please write a minimum of 100-200 words responding to tonight's reading. Build off of your peers responses and include a question to facilitate their posts.
Please write a minimum of 100-200 words responding to tonight's reading. Build off of your peers responses and include a question to facilitate their posts.
Please write a minimum of 100-200 words responding to tonight's reading. Build off of your peers responses and include a question to facilitate their posts.
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