Re: [Marxism] Cuba legalizes private titles to govt. homes (longer)

["Jeffrey Thomas Piercy, El Pato Comunista" <mqduck@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ruthless Critic of All that Exists wrote:
> So it seems that the Cubans were trying (unsuccessfully, so far) what
> Marx had advocated doing only in a *higher* phase of communist
> society, namely "each according to his ability, to each according to
> his needs"  -- and only *now*, 50 years after the revolution,  are the
> Cubans going back to what Marx had advocated doing at the *initial*
> stages after the revolution, namely "from each according to his work,
> to each according to his ability"

Interestingly, Marx states, as you quoted, "the individual producer 
receives back from society -- after the deductions have been made -- 
exactly what he gives to it. What he has given to it is his individual 
quantum of labor." But the change in Cuba is not to give according to 
the "quantum" of labor, but according to the quality of that labor. Does 
that make it unsocialistic? I'm not sure.

Of course, I trust Raul's opinions on what Cuba should do more than my 
own - but that doesn't stop me from having them ;-)

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