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RedMaterialist
2nd January 2013, 19:55
According to a report on Fox News radio (my source for historical analysis) the Cuban government is laying off hundreds of thousands of state workers and allowing the opening of tens of thousands of small businesses. The flowering of free enterprise, according to Fox.

Is Cuba repeating what happened to the Soviet Union? Was Cuba a state-capitalist type of economic system?
Blake's Baby
2nd January 2013, 20:11
Of course it's state-capitalist. What else would it be?

The fact that you claim Fox as your source for historical analysis might explain why your political compass is totally screwed. There are no non-capitalist states.
Let's Get Free
2nd January 2013, 20:15
Was Cuba a state-capitalist type of economic system?
Yes. Contrary to what the romantic supporters of cuba will tell you, the country never had anything to do with socialism
RedMaterialist
2nd January 2013, 20:56
Of course it's state-capitalist. What else would it be?

The fact that you claim Fox as your source for historical analysis might explain why your political compass is totally screwed. There are no non-capitalist states.

So Castro was the CEO of this capitalist state? I guess Kennedy didn't know he was attacking a fellow capitalist. I meant the Fox reference to be non-serious. However, it is as good a source as any U.S. media.
TheGodlessUtopian
2nd January 2013, 20:57
The PSL did a good piece on this...

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/cuba-adopts-new-economic.html
mykittyhasaboner
2nd January 2013, 21:18
Cuba's economy is not collapsing. Its not exactly in great shape but its not in any particular danger. If Cuba didn't collapse in the 90's what makes you think it would now, completely out of the blue?


Yes. Contrary to what the romantic supporters of cuba will tell you, the country never had anything to do with socialism

Your cheap criticism is probably worse than "romantic" support.
Luisrah
2nd January 2013, 22:01
Communist state? What's that supposed to mean? :confused:
Workers-Control-Over-Prod
2nd January 2013, 23:58
According to a report on Fox News radio (my source for historical analysis) the Cuban government is laying off hundreds of thousands of state workers and allowing the opening of tens of thousands of small businesses. The flowering of free enterprise, according to Fox.

Is Cuba repeating what happened to the Soviet Union? Was Cuba a state-capitalist type of economic system?

Cuba is moving towards a State-Capitalism. Cuba had real existing socialism until the Russian "communist" bureaucrats sold out. I don't know what Raul is trying to do, but certainly they have been trying to reform the old command economy with different methods and have been having problems.
Psy
3rd January 2013, 00:00
According to a report on Fox News radio (my source for historical analysis) the Cuban government is laying off hundreds of thousands of state workers and allowing the opening of tens of thousands of small businesses. The flowering of free enterprise, according to Fox.

Is Cuba repeating what happened to the Soviet Union? Was Cuba a state-capitalist type of economic system?
Back in the 1980's and 1990's global capitalists were able to throw cheap credit at the former Warsaw pact, with the current finical crisis global capitalists can't do that nor do they want more means of production as the capitalist world is already drowning in productive capacity. There just isn't many investors interested in Cuba's mean of production making privatization problematic since the privatization of Europe is blowing up in the capitalists face now.
GiantMonkeyMan
3rd January 2013, 00:12
Yes. Contrary to what the romantic supporters of cuba will tell you, the country never had anything to do with socialism
To say that it never had anything to do with socialism is disingenuous; clearly the Cuban revolution was fuel by both peasants in the countryside and proletariats in the cities and it wasn't the sort of nationalist post-colonial struggle that defined much of the 'revolutionary' struggles of the cold war. However, it was never a socialist state and it could never 'build' towards socialism either.
RedMaterialist
3rd January 2013, 15:15
The PSL did a good piece on this...

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/cuba-adopts-new-economic.html

Thanks for the link. very helpful.