Imagine not being able to attain full autarky as an isolated island nation.
edit: I hate these takes so much because they are fiercely ahistorical. "Cuba is capitalist" ignores all realities of the world for the last 30 years.
MLs always fail and turn back to capitalism is such a garbage ill informed take that it's honestly just offensive. How many of these states got attacked/sabotaged/had leaders assassinated/had genocides perpetrated against their people.
These people will go from not knowing who Sankara is to condenming him as "authoritarian" and shitting on their revolution.
(to be clear I'm ranting about twitter people at this point, not anyone who actually makes an effort).
Is my criticism that Cuba is not becoming an autarky? My criticism is that Cuba exploits its workers the same way that any capitalist nation does. According to ML's there is no alternative between standard capitalism and the specific form of state capitalism practices by Cuba and NK. Do you understand how horrible it feels to have no connection between your labor efforts and your wage? This is 1000x worse in ML states where prices are arbitrarily set by the state and have no relation to SNLT.
The fact that these states were attacked is due to competition between the state that owns all capital vs private capitalists who want to own capital. The workers have little to say in this matter.
NK also engages with capitalists lmfao. Their main trading partner is China, they have SEZs where Chinese and SK firms operate. They have a massive black market, and they tax profits. That's right, they tax profits, not only is all profit not going to the state, they only tax 50% of it. It's not even socialist by the perverse ML standard.
Imagine not being able to attain full autarky as an isolated island nation.
edit: I hate these takes so much because they are fiercely ahistorical. "Cuba is capitalist" ignores all realities of the world for the last 30 years.
MLs always fail and turn back to capitalism is such a garbage ill informed take that it's honestly just offensive. How many of these states got attacked/sabotaged/had leaders assassinated/had genocides perpetrated against their people.
These people will go from not knowing who Sankara is to condenming him as "authoritarian" and shitting on their revolution.
(to be clear I'm ranting about twitter people at this point, not anyone who actually makes an effort).
Is my criticism that Cuba is not becoming an autarky? My criticism is that Cuba exploits its workers the same way that any capitalist nation does. According to ML's there is no alternative between standard capitalism and the specific form of state capitalism practices by Cuba and NK. Do you understand how horrible it feels to have no connection between your labor efforts and your wage? This is 1000x worse in ML states where prices are arbitrarily set by the state and have no relation to SNLT.
The fact that these states were attacked is due to competition between the state that owns all capital vs private capitalists who want to own capital. The workers have little to say in this matter.
North Korea is an interesting example of what would happen if Cuba didn't engage with capitalists.
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NK also engages with capitalists lmfao. Their main trading partner is China, they have SEZs where Chinese and SK firms operate. They have a massive black market, and they tax profits. That's right, they tax profits, not only is all profit not going to the state, they only tax 50% of it. It's not even socialist by the perverse ML standard.