Isn Cuba and certain small African nations socialist?
No. Cuba and all of the “Third World” nations in Africa lack the technological capability to produce an abundance for all that is necessary for socialism. Please refer to two of the questions above for a listing of all of the material requirements that are needed to facilitate socialism, and then note that Cuba and all small “developing” nations lack every one of these things. All of these small countries still possess widespread poverty, monetary currency, wage slavery, and an all-powerful political state, NONE of which would exist under genuine socialism (do you honestly think Fidel Castro would have put aside his status as one of the wealthiest men on the planet, as well as the most privileged person in Cuba, for the benefit of his countrymen?). Cuba’s economy is Leninist (see the section on Pretenders to Socialism to see how Leninism differs from Marxism), despite the fact that it alternately refers to itself as “communism” or “socialism”, both quite incorrectly. All of the small A