Is Philippines better off as a Communist country?!

[hala tindak jud]

Adunay managkinaiya nga klase sa mga tawo, para masabtan nato ang kahimtang sa mga poster direm, adunay Abante nga mga panghuna huna, tunga-tunga, ug atrasado. Kining mga atrasado nga panghunahuna nagpabilin kini silang ingun ana kay dili kini sila moabli ug manikiduki sa ilang katilingban.

[hala tindak jud]

Hehehehehe..........Ok....kung makakita ko ug libro or article nga mag illustrate nganong ang idealistic idea such as that of Marx cannot exist in the real world....akoa lang unyang i hatag nimo para ma convince ka.....actually, it is already a common knowledge in the school were I came from that an ideal situation cannot exists in this real world ........... That's why I readily conclude that such an idea from Marx which is too ideal cannot exist also on this planet.......... Unless that you can prove that the first premise is false or Marx idealogy is an exception ..........

From what school diay ka bai? Are they teaching you as open about the issue? Or they were directly bias on the matter. kay sa akong school hatagan mi tanan ideas, depende na namo kung unsa among tuhuan, base sa imong statement, ni conclude ka kay mao ang giingon sa imong school. is that a freedom of thinking?

Hahay, anyway some schools are teaching their students not to become a well minded one, they want them to become how to become like their school.

Ok so on and so forth.

[lr]

Yeah, you guys were right....Wala pay nasud nga naabot ang true communist state because it simply cannot be implemented.
The countries who attempted it failed miserably, instead of reaching the communist state, ning liko^, nahimo na nuong socialist state wherein they were ruled by dictators na hinuon. And do you think a corrupt dictator would want to reach that true communist state? No way, and that miserable country will just stagnate .........
Ang uban, like China, ning embrace na ug capitalism kay they realize, their dream of a communist state is just a fairy tale. The Chinese government probably realize that it cannot handle everyone's needs, they need private companies to take care of those. And what are these private companies, those are capitalist, they live by making money, they have their own organizational structure wherein the top gets the bulk of the profit and the ones at the bottom gets the crumbs, and there goes your communist ideals of a classless society. Hehe, just a reality check......

or perhaps there so called "communist leaders" after mao zedong didnt embrace the true ideals of communism. there are two sides of a coin. and again, a country alone can't have a classless society opposed to the russian revisionist claimed thay have reached. its a worldwide thing.

[brian_d]

The other side of Fidel Castro


By Amando Doronila
Inquirer
Last updated 01:34am (Mla time) 08/09/2006

Published on Page A13 of the August 9, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

WHEN President Fidel Castro of Cuba "temporarily delegated" power last week to his brother Raul, after he underwent surgery for intestinal bleeding, two things predictably happened. First, the 650,000-strong Cuban exile community in the United States exploded in celebration in Miami, Florida, waving Cuban flags and chanting "Viva Cuba Libre!" They were jubilant that the 47-year-old Castro dictatorship had come to an end. As one of their leaders put it, "It's a wonderful moment for democracy to flourish in Cuba."

The other predictable reaction was US President George W. Bush's move to stoke the exiles' jubilation. Bush issued a provocative statement, saying: "I urge the Cuban people to work for democratic change on the island. While we support you in your effort to build a transitional government committed to democracy, we will take note of those in the current Cuban regime, who obstruct your desire for a free Cuba." With that statement, Bush served notice that the United States is prepared to undertake another politically civilizing mission to revitalize democracy in the Western hemisphere and Latin America even as his project to spoon-feed democracy to Iraq appears to be failing and costing a lot of American soldiers' lives, as well as Iraqi lives, in a nasty civil war.

But even with his serious illness, Castro did not oblige the fondest hopes of Bush and the exiles. Castro's health is kept as a tightly guarded "state secret" in Cuba. The regime's caretakers have not disclosed his real condition and have not issued regular health bulletins, but the latest reports indicate that Castro would stay a few more weeks in the
hospital.

Raul Castro has not showed up in public, deepening the mystery, but a few things have crystallized. Fidel Castro's ill-wishers will have to wait a while.

The Cuban regime has not disintegrated with the collapse of Castro's health. A transition team has been put in place and the caretakers have mobilized reservists to resist invasion by liberating exiles, acting as proxies of the US government. Even if Castro goes or is incapacitated for a long time, the communist regime is shoring up the ruling structure
against any drastic return to democracy.

Castro has decreed that his brother Raul, 75, who is defense minister, will take over as first secretary of the Communist Party, president and commander in chief. Unlike other communist parties, Castro has developed a dynasty and a line of succession to ensure continuity of policy and party control. He is reported to trust only his brother, who has been his right-hand man since the Cuban revolution 47 years ago, although it has also been reported that Raul has shown tendencies to introduce market elements in the economy.

Castro had put in place a transitional team before he was struck by illness. Significantly, the announcement of the delegation of powers was read on television by a member of a tight-knit group of party faithful in their 20s or 30s forming a so-called Praetorian Guard. The announcement handed over responsibility for key economic areas to senior bureaucrats -- Carlos Lague, a vice president, and Felipe Perez, the minister for foreign
affairs -- now in their 50s.

Few leaders in authoritarian systems have built transitional mechanisms or a second line of leadership. When President Suharto fell from power in Indonesia, he had not laid the ground for an orderly succession. Castro seems to be different. He had a system of succession in place led by his brother, who is ideologically cast in the same mold.

The state of the Cuban economy under Castro and the Cuban model of socialism leave much to be desired. One of the questions now being asked amid the uncertainty over Castro's health is whether his heirs would introduce reforms to liberalize the economy.

Leaving the economic issues in the meantime, there are glowing reports about Cuba's education system and health care. I am calling attention to these programs, because health care and education are important issues in the Philippines as they reveal how socially compassionate our government or system is.

In an article in the Guardian of London, John Harris, who made a film for the BBC on the "World's Best Public Services," reported that Cuba may look forlorn with "peeling buildings and pockmarked roads," but, unlike the old states of Eastern Europe, "the revolution has a few genuine jewels to defend: its education system and globally acclaimed health care. "

Harris reported that the Cuban health system emphasizes preventive care and locks doctors into their local populations. The system is built around simplicity from which Britain's National Health Service "would do well to learn," he concluded.

Harris said Cubans have an average life expectancy of 77.3 years compared to 77.34 for Americans. Infant mortality rates in Cuba and the United States are almost the same. But he also pointed out that their respective health budgets "underline the Cuban miracle": in the United States, the annual figure per head is $5,711, and in Cuba, it is $251. Despite this, Cuban medical schools train First World doctors, among them Americans, on its budget, with excellent results. Also, like the Philippines, Cuba exports doctors to both First World and Third World countries, not necessarily socialist countries.

Harris reported that when he spoke to trainee doctors, dental patients and expectant mothers, he came away with the impression that "anyone who would let loose a free market and sweep away Castro's public services would be in deep trouble."

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[Sanosuke]

no...

[bcasabee]

I am came from USC college of engineering, was an irregular student unya ning extend ug 1 year kay sige ka hagbong.........................one of the significant lessons I learned from our school is defining the boundary between the ideal and the real........theoritical and practical...........and it would be my pleasure to be called someone who thinks like my school..........science and virteous is our line of thinking...........................
communism? yeah its good I agree, but it can only exist on paper................know the boundary between the ideal and the real......and you will know why its my conclusion....................
and oh, I have this idea of my ideal girlfriend, but hey, I wouldn't bother looking for her because chances are, she doesn't exist, if your idea of open mindedness is to keep the hope of finding her, nahhh, you can keep that open mindedness to yourself, I don't need it.

From what school diay ka bai? Are they teaching you as open about the issue? Or they were directly bias on the matter. kay sa akong school hatagan mi tanan ideas, depende na namo kung unsa among tuhuan, base sa imong statement, ni conclude ka kay mao ang giingon sa imong school. is that a freedom of thinking?

Hahay, anyway some schools are teaching their students not to become a well minded one, they want them to become how to become like their school.

Ok so on and so forth.

[franklin]

I am came from USC college of engineering, was an irregular student unya ning extend ug 1 year kay sige ka hagbong.........................one of the significant lessons I learned from our school is defining the boundary between the ideal and the real........theoritical and practical...........and it would be my pleasure to be called someone who thinks like my school..........science and virteous is our line of thinking...........................
communism? yeah its good I agree, but it can only exist on paper................know the boundary between the ideal and the real......and you will know why its my conclusion....................
and oh, I have this idea of my ideal girlfriend, but hey, I wouldn't bother looking for her because chances are, she doesn't exist, if your idea of open mindedness is to keep the hope of finding her, nahhh, you can keep that open mindedness to yourself, I don't need it.

being open minded is good pero if pa subra an na gani, then its already bad. lisod kaayo mu tuo dayon ka dritso kay basin dili naka maka identify if its a fact or just a fiction. im open to new ideas pero dili dayon ko mu padala specially kanang mga emotional og convincing kaayo nga mga speakers kay sometimes, they could make fiction seem real and bad things seem good. the biggest example nga thru speeches, those things can be done is hitler.
problema anang taga up kay gamay istorya sa ila professor, tuo dayon sila. dili ta magpadala sa emotions kay daghan na daut ana. dili gyud na pwedi kanang idealistic ra kaayo kay in science, an ideal state does not exist.

[edgeknife]

A big NO!!!

[The_Child]

[pnoize]

how would you like it if a person or a group of persons dictated what you must be learn and what must not be learned?

how would you like it if the same group of persons told you that whatever you worked hard for must now be confiscated and given out to "share" with the movement?

how would you like it if the same group of persons dictate to you what is allowed to be expressed and how it should be expressed?