I was going to say, if we are to altogether judge western democracies, we ought to look at foreign policy and the attitudes of the so-called egalitarian human-rights loving USA and its minion states. 100,000 dead Iraqi's ≠ human rights preserved
(And use higher standards than Cuba, with regards to economics)
Now Communist economic theory, or their labor theories of value, was invented before and during the industrial revolution. Major concepts were not discovered, they simply used "a value of a good is determined by the work that goes in to it". Which made sense in the middle-ages, but leads to terrible post-industrial policy.
I don't believe for a second that Cuba is what it is, economically and primarily, because of white oppressors. Now maybe that was a required factor to bring a dumb-ass like Castro to power, but people ought to take some responsibility for what they themselves let happen.
I mean there are actually dictators who produce good economic policy; Augusto Pinochet. Or for that matter the oligarchies in Vietnam and China right now, they seem to be improving a ton, at least in that respect.