Cuba's Future with communism?

[DoCt SPARTAN]

After the Castro brothers pass will the end of "communism" era in Cuba will it remain in a communist state of turn to a capitalist society.
DO the people like living in Cuba or the system?

[ArrowLance]

At current rate of retreats being made in Cuba, it is questionable if the communist state will survive even that long. The global capitalist system is constantly weakening what few communist states there are left after the fall of the Soviet Union.

[tuwix]

I've never been in Cuba. Therefore, I won't express my opinion do they like the system or not, but after being a citizen of country with similar system I could suppose it.
Nonetheless, I don't think that their Stalinist system will fell after one or another of leaders goes away. There is too many men interested in maintaining the status quo. All those bureaucrats who feel they are very important aren't interested to change a system at all. Certainly, there can emerge a “weakest link” as Gorbachev was who will try to fix the system but he'll end it. But I don't believe that something will change because of going away of someone. Many people was saying that if Fidel went, Cuban system would fell. Fidel has no real power no and system works end even better than under Fidel's rule...

[Captain Ahab]

It's doing a China with reforms being slowly passed to move the country's course away from its centrally planned economy. Since Cuba was neither socialist or communist to begin with this shouldn't be a major loss so long as most of the safety nets remain in place.

[DoCt SPARTAN]

At current rate of retreats being made in Cuba, it is questionable if the communist state will survive even that long. The global capitalist system is constantly weakening what few communist states there are left after the fall of the Soviet Union.

What do you mean by "retreats"

[Mackenzie_Blanc]

What do you mean by "retreats"

Basically since Raul took power, the Cuban government has been slashing public payroll, loosening restrictions on private property, and doing market reforms. These changes essentially open the door from full markets, as wanted by the bourgeois Cubans in Miami. :(

[DoCt SPARTAN]

Basically since Raul took power, the Cuban government has been slashing public payroll, loosening restrictions on private property, and doing market reforms. These changes essentially open the door from full markets, as wanted by the bourgeois Cubans in Miami. :(

Ok I understand now how they are starting to change a little

[Let's Get Free]

since when was cuba communist?

[Comrade Lenin]

since when was cuba communist?

Since When was Cuba Communist? Since 1959!

Come on man..sure it hasn't reached the communist stage. They are simply stating that its Marxist-Leninist. You know what they meant.

[hardlinecommunist]

Cuba has not reached The stage of Communist development yet it is still at The Socialist stage

[Let's Get Free]

Since When was Cuba Communist? Since 1959!

Come on man..sure it hasn't reached the communist stage. They are simply stating that its Marxist-Leninist. You know what they meant.

uhh, the cuban revolution was emphatically not a socialist one. Even Marxist-Leninists should accept this, as socialism wasn't even on the agenda till 1961.

Cuba is clearly state capitalist and certainly not socialist. or we can just say "fuck Marxian analysis" and conclude that Cuba is socialist for no other reason than the fact that it's disguised in alluring red flags and socialistic sounding rhetoric.