Date: 4 Mar 2002 08:16:49 +0200
From: "Tahir Wood" <twood-AT-uwc.ac.za>
Subject: AUT: capitalist cuba?


Four questions:
1. Is there any sort of "rule" in Cuba (for those who say there is no "ruling class")?
2. Is there wage slavery in Cuba?
3. Is there any way to reverse dollarisation (and to prevent the myth of "socialism" from exploding)?
4. If capital is accumulated at the level of the state through extraction from the labour of the workers, why should this not be called capitalism? BTW capital in Cuba is no longer confined to the state anyway, there are now several kinds of private enterprise, including part ownership of businesses by foreign corporations; i.e. many Cubans therefore work for foreign corporations.

Lots more to be said on all this I suspect. And a worthwhile exercise that shouldn't just degenerate into a slanging match so quickly.

Tahir




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