Over the years, we Cuban-Americans have had our long chats (often heated) about communism and socialism.  It's frustrating that an ideology that has brought about so much misery still has people willing to try it out.  It must be something in human nature that refuses to learn the lessons of the past. I was so pleased to read this post by Robert Tracinski about communism and how many countries it has destroyed: Today marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution that set off the long global reign of terror of Communism. (For obscure reasons having to do with the outdated calendar used in Russia at the time, the October Revolution actually happened in November, and the Soviet Union traditionally celebrated it on November 7.)  A century of Communism achieved four main results for the people who suffered under it: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. Countries taken over by Communists, from China and Russia to Cuba and Venezuela,...(Read Full Post)