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Originally Posted by dda
Cuba fell in 1960.
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"Fell" from what? Cuba wasn't a democracy to start with. In fact, trying to put everything in those terms gives you a very misleading interpretation of events, especially in Central America. There were cases where democracy was attacked for being anti-US.
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However, it would be unduly cynical to suggest that economics explains everything. Sorry but Marx was a twat.
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I doubt many people think that economics does explain it all, and Marxism certainly doesn't. Quite a bit of the Marxist "canon" is actually polemics against that sort of crude economism (read some of Lenin or Gramsci's stuff for instance).