<<However as soon as the expected progress continues over the next decade or so the Communism will die.>>
I'm not going to argue against that, CU4, because I'm still considering that possibility myself. It may be that communism is successful only as a "jump start" cable, that is best suited for a country or a people that has been in a shit-hole for a long, long, time and needs some explosive burst of energy to get it out of the shit-hole and onto the path of recovery. Perhaps Communism is like the first stage of a booster rocket, that after it lifts the payload to an appropriate height, it is time for the first rocket to fall off and let the next rocket carry the payload to its true destination.
I'm reminded of something that Fidel Castro said a long time ago, when a reporter asked him why he didn't stay within the American orbit, ask Kennedy for Alliance for Progress assistance and funding and try to develop Cuba on capitalist lines, laying in the infrastructure first with U.S. assistance and then developing the economy into a prosperous industrial-based economy on the U.S. model. I was surprised that Castro admitted that he had considered it, and that it would probably have worked. The only problem with it, and this was a huge problem, was that it would have taken thirty years to come to fruition, which would have meant the sacrifice of another generation of Cuban youth. ("Sacrifice" in that they would have been left to the joblessness, poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness that was the lot of their parents and ancestors while the economy built itself up to the point where it could have accommodated the next generation after them.) Fidel said that he was unwilling to sacrifice that generation of Cubans to the same fate that had befallen all of their predecessors. That the Revolution as an alternative would give their lives instant meaning, instant fulfillment: education NOW, not for the next generation; healthcare NOW, not for the next generation; independence and dignity NOW, not for the next generation; and ditto for decent housing, food, etc.
The Revolution was a force that gave meaning, direction and purpose to millions of young Cubans and enlisted them from their early teens or even earlier to mobilize and fight for a better world, one free of exploitation, subservience to foreign overlords, illiteracy, etc. In that respect, it was a galvanizing ideal that changed the lives of millions and deserves our utmost respect. The same applies to the Chinese and Russian Revolutions. It's the nature of the evolutionary principle that evolved forms continue to evolve and yes, perhaps it is true that communism in its turn, once certain goals are accomplished, will give way to newer forms. I hope instead that Communism itself will continue to evolve and adapt, adapt even to successful Revolutions and somehow manage to retain the spirit of Revolutionary opposition to all forms of capitalism, imperialism and exploitation.