In 50 Years Of Oppression, Castro Somehow Failed To Create Ideal Society

Cubans now confront the prospect of constructing a heaven-on-earth without their formidable leader’s dedication to to systematic denial of basic human rights to an entire people.

Havana, November 27 – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at age 90 on Friday, bringing to a close a period in which he and his brother Raul mysteriously fell short of creating a workers’ paradise and a civic utopia despite more than five decades of firing squads, concentration camps, political repression, suppression of speech, and myriad other enlightened policies that prompted tens of thousands of Cubans to flee the island nation by whatever means possible over the years.

Castro succumbed to the infirmities of old age last week, a luxury denied to hundreds of thousands of his political opponents and their families or associates since 1959. His passing brings to an unfortunate close an era in which the revolutionary and his brother, and earlier, political ally Che Guevara, could bring into manifestation on this planet an ideal society, by means of imposing deprivation, isolation, and fear on 11 million people.

World leaders from Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau to Basher Assad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sent condolences to the people of Cuba, who now confront the prospect of constructing a heaven-on-earth without their formidable leader’s dedication to systematic denial of basic human rights to an entire people. For their part, Assad, Khamenei, and a host of other like-minded personages across the world vowed to continue following Castro’s example in their own countries, with several assuring Cubans that the late strongman’s death would not mean that his work will not continue – and that in the aftermath of his passing, Cuba could look to those other nations for guidance in how to bring that utopia to fruition via abuse and torture of gays and other politically troublesome populations.

Experts noted that Castro was not the first to die without fulfilling his dream of creating an ideal society. “Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and many others met similarly tragic fates,” explained UK Labour and Opposition leader MP Jeremy Corbyn. “In most cases the capitalist West deserves the lion’s share of the blame, because they continually thwarted the noble attempts by those trailblazing personalities to create something new and better than a world in which people can exercise the dangerous right of questioning whether bringing the capitalist system crashing down could be anything but positive.”

Corbyn added that he had specifically omitted mention of Hitler, who also died in a failed attempt to create a new society, because Stalin had opposed Hitler, and therefore Hitler could not be cited as an unequivocal example of a man of the correct pure ideals. “But you might want to ask my colleague Ken Livingstone for a more nuanced view,” he said.

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