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Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, does the word “socialism” make sense any more?

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Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, does the word “socialism” make sense any more?

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I am more convinced than ever that it makes a great deal of sense. In Cuba, we have a united country and a party that guides but does not nominate or elect. The people, gathered in open assemblies, put up candidates, and nominate and elect delegates from 14,686 districts. They make up the assemblies of their respective municipalities, and nominate candidates to the provincial and national assemblies, the highest bodies of state power at those levels. The delegates, who are chosen through a secret ballot, must receive more than 50% of the valid votes. Although voting is not compulsory, more than 95% of eligible voters take part in these elections. The United States, such a vocal advocate of multi-party systems, has two parties that are so perfectly similar in their methods, objectives and goals that they have practically created the most perfect one-party system in the world. More than 50% of the people in that “democratic country” do not even cast a vote, and the team that manages to r

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