Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:51:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Is the ruling class pushing Cuba towards market capitalism?



--- Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 04:52:34 -0800 (PST), Michael
> Handelman wrote:
> >Does anyone know if the ruling class in Cuba is
> >pushing Cuba towards market capitalism?
> 
> There is no ruling class in Cuba in Marxist terms.
> If you are using 
> non-Marxist definitions of class, could you please
> elaborate on them? 
> That might help me answer your question.
> 
> 

Bad term, I probably should have said "ruling elites"
rather than "ruling class".

Of course, "ruling class" does exist in the marxist
sense in Cuba, for example, if one were to adopt
Bourdieu's taxonomy (different forms of capital:
cultural capital, political capital, social capital
etc), but "ruling elites" is probably a clearer term,
nonetheless.

> -- 
> Louis Proyect, lnp3-AT-panix.com on 03/03/2002
> 
> Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
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