Cuba recogonizes private property and businesses now

bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44836358
Oh no…

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Isn’t this just legalizing what already de facto exists? It’s a small step backwards, but nothing earth-shattering. Same with the buzz in bourgeois media over Cuba’s dropping of the word “communism” in its constitution. Who cares, they still said they are sticking firm to socialism and wish to keep trying to consolidate on the island.

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I agree in that I don't think it's that big of a deal but at the same time…isn't them recognizing private property evidence that they *aren't* sticking firm to socialism?

Just like China? The central tenets of communism have been dropped. It's going to be a de-facto capitalist state.

The reason behind this is to curb black market activities. Private property on a low level has been a thing in Cuba since the 90s, now with this you can actually properly register private businesses and consequently put a sales tax on them instead of pretending they don't exist. They also simultaneously curb capitalist enterprise by limiting businesses to only a low number of employees.

There is no other way for such a holdout to exist since the USSR is gone. DPRK has to recognize informal markets too (although the level of degredation in the DPRK is way less progressed compared to Cuba). It's important for Cuba now to modernize it's economy in a short amount of time while expanding socialism, this is going to be a hard task.

Can't wait for Walmart in Havana.

China and Vietnam are pretty much capitalist states at this point. You will never get rid of capitalism until post-scarcity is achieved which will never happen in our lifetimes or the next generation. Get over it.

Seriously, besides moral outrage, what would be so bad about this? Cubans would get access to a variety of foreign goods, increasing their quality of life, as long as Walmart bends to the standards the Cuban government sets out for them in potential SEZs. Stop trying to throw a fit and bring on an argument, but dare I forget, socialism must always be poor otherwise it's evil capitalism, read Mark Fisher, blablabla.

Absolute bullshit, where did you assume this? Socialism and even communism was never based on Star Trek levels of abundance, it can work with a distributary system under scarcity.

They could at least pretend to care. You know, mandatory workplace democracy, tenant and other consumer unions, not crushing strikes, free expression.

Little things.