A huge brouhaha has erupted at Wikipedia because of this very controversial sentence that was put into the encyclopedia item about Cuba:
Cuba is a socialist republic, in which the Communist Party of Cuba is
the sole legal political party, and is the only state in the western
hemisphere that is not a democracy
This characterization of Cuba, posted by Adam Carr, who describes
himself as a history Ph.D. and a gay activist, is about as accurate as
any description of Cuba could possibly be. But the lefties are beside
themselves at what they consider a slander on Fidel by saying Cuba is
not a democracy.
This controversy shows how insidious the
white-is-black, black-is-white leftist worldview has become.
Their inability to acknowledge the difference between a dictatorship
and a democracy is the heart of the left’s strategy. They hope that if
they say it often enough people will actually believe Cuba is a
democracy. Here’s how one Fidel fan put it, using the best Marxist
gobbledygook:
Bruce Hallman wrote that calling Cuba undemocratic is a ”logical
fallacy” because it applies ”capitalistic values” in the context of
a socialist society. ‘Might it be possible to write the article without
using the word `democracy’ at all?” he suggested.
The day we can’t call a dictatorship a dictatorship without
controversy is the day a jury will refuse to give capital punishment to
an admitted terrorist. No, wait, that was yesterday.
