[lbo-talk] Cuba to lay off 500, 000 state workers: The beginning of the end of Cuban socialism

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What's so hard to understand? It's a counter-revolution from the top. Just like in the former Soviet union.

The nomenclatura wants toys.

Joanna

"In a few years Cuba will be a thoroughly mixed economy - but even this characterization will be deceptive, since it will obscure the trajectory of the country. It's interesting to me that here we have a case of the founding generation of a socialist revolution dismantling their own system. I don't know how anyone's supposed to take such Third World revolutionary projects seriously ever again."