Lmao let’s start with the fact that Cuba lost its sugar economy because the US started releasing plagues in our country. But yea let me not speak on how racist it is to relegate a Black Country to “a sugar plantation”. https://t.co/75LFFoHta0— mambí (@mambi26) March 26, 2021
here we have a unique case of a maoist calling cuba a "banana republic" of the soviet union because it received aid from it
STRUGGLE SESSION: Part of the reason why Che left the island was because he gradually became more and more interested in the maoist model and diversifying to a peasantry based agrarian society. Fidel listened to soviet attaches instead and became overly focused on the traditional cashcrop, sugar. In retrospect the island should have focused on boosting food security, especially in the east of the island.
I agree that Cuba should have tried that (and to some extent did). But I also think that Cuba had a number of points like being relatively more modernised that meant a primarily Soviet Model worked better over a more Maoist one.
And I think that's enabled Cuba's ability to maintain a more robust grassroots democratic system than other AES states. Of all the Communist states Cuba has made the least ideological compromises.
Remember when Castro got desperate in the 90s and tried to sell people a bunch of golf courts? Cuba is better than most but let's be honest, right now it is overreliant on Canadian tourism and simply wishes to become either the next Burma or the next Vietnam depending on how much the Americans force them to rely on chinese trade.
Fidel himself recognized that they should've listened to Che more often when it comes to economics. He talks about it here , if you speak spanish or portuguese.
No revolution is perfect, but to call the only successful one in the Americas a neo-colony is at the very least distasteful.
STRUGGLE SESSION: Part of the reason why Che left the island was because he gradually became more and more interested in the maoist model and diversifying to a peasantry based agrarian society. Fidel listened to soviet attaches instead and became overly focused on the traditional cashcrop, sugar. In retrospect the island should have focused on boosting food security, especially in the east of the island.
I agree that Cuba should have tried that (and to some extent did). But I also think that Cuba had a number of points like being relatively more modernised that meant a primarily Soviet Model worked better over a more Maoist one.
And I think that's enabled Cuba's ability to maintain a more robust grassroots democratic system than other AES states. Of all the Communist states Cuba has made the least ideological compromises.
Remember when Castro got desperate in the 90s and tried to sell people a bunch of golf courts? Cuba is better than most but let's be honest, right now it is overreliant on Canadian tourism and simply wishes to become either the next Burma or the next Vietnam depending on how much the Americans force them to rely on chinese trade.
Oh, they're not perfect, absolutely. But seige socialism is a bitch to deal with.
Fidel himself recognized that they should've listened to Che more often when it comes to economics. He talks about it here , if you speak spanish or portuguese.
No revolution is perfect, but to call the only successful one in the Americas a neo-colony is at the very least distasteful.