Fidel Castro, having built a socialist paradise chose not to live it himself, preferring instead to indulge in the fruits of capitalism: yachts, servants, his own island, gourmet food and every luxury his vast wealth could afford. Including Viagra to fuel his waning appetites in old age. It will be a cold day in Combinado del Este before Oliver Stone makes a documentary about that, of course.
From here:
In a new, 338-page memoir, titled The Hidden Life Of Fidel Castro (published in France by Michel Lafon and co-authored by Axel Gyldén), Sanchez, an employee of 20 years’ standing, lifts the lid on the luxurious excesses enjoyed by the autocrat and his inner circle.
The book portrays a man obsessed with power and money, who styled himself as a hero of the working classes while living the opulent existence of a medieval potentate.
How often do you become what you sought to destroy?
The problem is that socialism takes God out of the picture and are unable to deal with the truth that men are sinners and ultimately only looking out for their own interest.
I don’t think that capitalism is any better.
There will never be a single economic system that will please everyone. So the question left for us to answer is this. Which system results in the greatest amount of prosperity for the greatest number of people? This in turn gets down to productivity, for it is only by the production of goods and services that “wealth” is created and made available for the people. As we have seen over many decades now it is the “mixed free enterprise system” that is the most productive and also results in the greatest amount of “wealth” being distributed over the largest percentage of the population.
Communism, in all of its various forms, fails to produce. Pure capitalism fails to distribute. That is why a mixed system, consisting of capitalism along with government participation/intervention, works the best for the most people.
To borrow a sentiment from Winston Churchill, it may be a lousy system. But it is better than all of the alternatives.