: However, this is not to deride what Cuba has achieved - IF the US did leave well alone I'm sure Cuba would transform itself into a new form of socialist state ... it is naive to assume however that it would necessarily be a great and wonderful one. The Cuban economy works because it _is_ under threat, because it _is_ sanctioned, what would happen once this fencing came down is anyones guess - Castro and Guevara were proponents of hard work and the living of theory - the 'New Man' - would this still be so achieved once products and money came flooding into the Cuban economy unchecked ... hmmm??I agree with you until this point friend and I will acknowledge that the cuban revolution has its individual crcumstance but the essential thesis and praxis of the revolution is one from which the world can learn.
The cuban situation may also collapse if it ended its 'war' with America and introduced commodities but the likelyhood of that is slim the U.S. isnt liable to stop until it has crushed ever differing example of freedom.
Why, whenever this unique scenario has led to the exclusion of commodities, would you seek to introduce useless and wasteful garbage that can only serve to reduce socialism?
The 'New Man' thesis is where ideological and practical socialism meets and I think denigrating it is unjust.
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