Re: [Marxism] RE: The two souls of Socialism

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Pearn wrote:
> It is because Cuba is subjected to similar economic
> drives, distorted due to the decades long economic war
> that America has waged on it, that we assert that Cuba
> is a state capitalist society. That is it is a society
> in which a bureaucratic ruling strata, call it a class
> or a caste it changes nothing, plays a role in the
> process of production and exchange analogous to that
> played by the traditional capitalist class.

This is the essence of dogmatic thinking. Marxist phraseology about "ruling
strata" and classes substitute themselves for a concrete examination of
Cuban society. At least people like Mike Gonzalez cite secondary
literature. Nobody can mount a response to this sort of thing because to do
so would necessarily engage on the same level, which is to spout formulas.



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