uhh can anyone debunk this if it isn’t true, or clarify if this is some dengist thing
Labour Minister Marta Elena Feito said the list of authorised industries had expanded from 127 to more than 2,000.
Only a minority of industries would be reserved for the state, she said.
From a Richard Wolf video it seemed like they were opening themselves up to private co-ops more than anything else, but I don’t remember any specifics of it.
Also there was a Cuban Anarchist who said this was basically to remove the black market that exists so that they can regulate/control it better.
Small businesses have been operating in Cuba for a while now. Most Cubans have a side job or side business alongside their “main job”. I think this move just legitimizes the informal economy that exists alongside the state economy. Not really a big deal as the media is making it out to be unless someone wants to correct me.
There were some articles I was reading on Cuban cooperatives which the state is trying to push as a form of middle ground for their economy. So I hope Cuba at least moves to a more market socialist economy in the near future to continue their development.
sauce on the cuban anarchist?
it’s also interesting, the dual currency situation in Cuba. Lot of fascinating ethnography on that subject.
Cuba was never socialist. They are moving from a misguided inefficient form of capitalism to a proven efficient form of capitalism. This is good for the Cuban people, but the move itself is irrelevant as far as socialism is concerned.
Love to make jokes about abuse. Guess the “woke” facade drops when people who can actually smell ur bullshit come in.
Wait ur username of a pedophile isnt ironic? Stalin fucked a 13 year old when he was 40.
Never was is a huge overstatement but they definitely looking to capitalism since the 90s
Nope, they were never socialist. Can you define socialism for me? Because if your definition of socialism is “state owns capital”, then yes it is socialist, but no Marxist would call it socialist.
while fidel is no doubt great, that doesn’t mean people embrace communism. lots of reactionary russians stan stalin.
how many communal toothbrushes do the population have access to in total?
Hot take: if the embargo against Cuba either ended by the 1970s or never existed at all, Cuba would likely be a smaller version of China by now.
Vietnam is probably a more apt comparison.
I was more going for the angle of the allowance of private (perhaps non-worker controlled) businesses to have a presence in the country.
It’s one thing to allow a private sector, it’s another to be run by private the private sector. I think some form of a private sector is going to be inevitable for any AES state that exists under capitalist global hegemony. How else are you supposed to interface with the global economy?
That being said, if a there isn’t a strong enforcement of labor rights and development of labor unions in tandem with that allowance, it’s a bad sign. It’s easier to trake over a private business of the workforce is organized into a union that friendly to the party.
All Actually Existing Socialist states have been at least a little Dengist for a while now.
Except for the DPRK :juche: of course.
Even the DPRK has some contracting with outside companies for mineral mining I think. It’s just the natural thing to do without the trading bloc, organization, support, etc. with the Soviet Union. Implementing socialism will require surviving in the current capitalist world and more future revolutions and socialist movements to appear to reduce the stress that socialist countries face from global capitalism. Better to have socialists remain in power with a partially or mostly capitalist economy than have capitalist wreckers undo all the progress of the revolution using propaganda and terror.
