[friendlygrammar]

>That's more because of the embargo than anything Cubans did

I just have to ask, does communism require trading with capitalist nations to be successful? Because there are many nations under embargo by the US that are significantly more prosperous.

But clearly, when Marx was talking about a communist revolution he clearly meant that you should allow yourself to be exploited by your nearest capitalist neighbor.

[mynameisvlad]

> does communism require trading with capitalist nations to be successful?

You keep on going back to this. No, they don't. But an island nation does. It's ridiculously hard to produce literally all the things your country needs when it's 100x smaller than the US, and it's even harder when you have no land borders. Trading with other nations becomes ridiculously important at that point.

[realusername]

When you are an island, you HAVE to trade, you can be capitalist, communist or even monarchist, at some point you need goods from other places.