1984

Somebody made a comment about the extreme right being violent. I observe that both extremes are very similar. They are autocratic, intolerant, and very willing to use violence. They are so close, in recent decades we have seen hard core communist regimes in China, Vietnam, and Russia evolve towards a neofascist brand of authoritarian, highly stratified caste based regime. 

I'm now observing the Castro family dictatorship struggle as Raúl Castro tries to drive Cuba towards the neofascist mold while trying to satisfy the remaining Marxist hard core's wishes to preserve the communist system even though it's such a huge failure. And what I see Raúl trying to accomplish is possibly similar to what is advocated (silently) by the hard core right wing elite in the USA, a repressive autocracy which uses modern technology to brainwash and control the population. An approach the extreme left will also use and is using wherever it gains control.

It's amazing, but what George Orwell wrote about is happening. What he didn't see was the advances in computer hardware and software, surveillance methods, and biological/medical sciences. The Castro dictatorship is working very hard in these fields, they even have a standard procedure which includes taking a series of biological samples when they "request" that suspected dissidents present themselves at the political police center for questioning. They are setting up a data base to identify suspected "enemies of the state" by their smell, looks, etc. Orwell never imagined how horrible it could turn out.

For further reading you may wish to read the following posts:

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2016/06/comparative-analysis-of-methods-to.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2016/05/chanel-rolls-in-castros-vomit.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/my-dear-friends-of-civilized-western.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/i-was-abdus-salam.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/the-us-civil-war-slavery-and-revisionism.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/netanyahus-two-state-solution.html

http://21stcenturysocialcritic.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/pro-venezuelan-dictatorship-propaganda.html