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

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Wed, September 15, 2010 10:34 am, Somebody Somebody wrote:


> producers' cooperatives. Did this signal that Russia was ascending to a
> new type of cooperative socialism? Of course not, it just meant the old
> socialist system was being dismantled.

There was nothing socialist about the old system. The Communist parties
were agencies of middle peasant modernization; the most they could do is
to urbanize agrarian societies.

-- DRR