And what is the terrible, terrible crime Cuba has committed that provoked the empire to do this? Self-determination. Refusing to be an extension of capitalist exploitation in the region. Building a system that represents and supports everyday Cubans and guards against types like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk ruling over it.

They are attacked for being so effective at liberation.

Everyone in the US who fights for better pay or working conditions at a job, or struggles against a landlord for proper upkeep of a residence, needs to understand that Cuba is a way more advanced form of their struggle. Cuba may be behind in material tools, due to being under siege for so long, but it is living in the future in terms of class struggle while people in the US languish in the past. If they stand by while it takes damage, or worse side with the empire against it, their own struggle at home only becomes harder; they become traitors to their own cause.

Knowledge of class struggle is not lost to time, buried thousands of miles underwater, in an ancient tomb. It exists right now in the projects like Cuba. I wonder if USian people would more viscerally get it if they imagined Cuba as like one big working class union; it wouldn’t be quite accurate as a framing, but maybe they’d better understand the similarity of struggle.