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VILemon
13th April 2010, 23:14
Just thought that you guys might have something interesting to say about this.

What doth this portend? Anything?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8616858.stm
Nolan
13th April 2010, 23:20
Are they privatizing them or making them fully worker-run? I hope its the second.
Robocommie
13th April 2010, 23:21
Based on what very little the article tells us, I think it could be a positive step. I don't think there's much sense, personally, in having the smallest of businesses, like a tiny corner barbershop, run as a part of a national industry. And since these are small barber shops (three seats or less? Even Ice Cube's shop was bigger than that) there probably isn't going to be much in the way of labor exploitation, and certainly not a newly risen capitalist class.

And since they'll be paying rent and taxes instead of being paid a monthly wage, which is really just like being an employee, they'll more directly benefit from their labor surplus.
Glenn Beck
13th April 2010, 23:28
This is just devastating. Another victory for hairstyle revisionism. North Korea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socia list_lifestyle) is now the last bastion of proper socialist good fashion sense.
Scary Monster
14th April 2010, 02:35
This is just devastating. Another victory for hairstyle revisionism. North Korea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socia list_lifestyle) is now the last bastion of proper socialist good fashion sense.

Haha, yeah i really dont think a bourgeois class will rise out of a privatized barber shop, threatening to open cuba to further liberalization
Raightning
16th April 2010, 14:18
In all seriousness, while it doesn't mean anything on its own, it does seriously worry me that the post-Fidel leadership are preparing to give up the fight against privatisation. There was an interesting passage in Tariq Ali's book on Latin America (Pirates of the Caribbean) which talked of Fidel being the main reason that Cuba resisted the 'liberalisation' that so cursed the Eastern Bloc.

For all its flaws, let's hope Havana can resist Miami.
RadioRaheem84
16th April 2010, 17:44
I don't think that even introducing a little bit of capitalism would be good for Cuba. I am not talking about a little barbershop but the introduction of foreign direct investment at a huge level if Raul gets his way. I mean to introduce Dengist reforms would be the absolute death of the revolution.
RedSonRising
16th April 2010, 19:38
The article stresses Raul's caution and contemplation, which I hope for the sake of the people does prove to be for the better in the long-term.
RED DAVE
16th April 2010, 21:15
Remember what happened to Samson: revolutionary leader of Jewish liberation.

RED DAVE
piet11111
16th April 2010, 21:21
Remember what happened to Samson: revolutionary leader of Jewish liberation.

RED DAVE

What the guy that gained all his strength through the length of his hair ?
His hair was cut by his wife not his barber.

(i really hate myself for even remembering this crap from my christian school :()
RED DAVE
16th April 2010, 22:45
His hair was cut by his wife not his barber.Yeah, but you didn't know that in Ancient Philistine "Delilah" means "barber."

RED DAVE
brigadista
16th April 2010, 23:30
thought that the casas particulars were small businesses