[Marxism] WSWS: Cuban "reforms" promote private property and social inequality

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Taken together, these measures represent a major turn towards
intensifying social inequality and strengthening the grip of private
ownership and foreign capital within Cuba. It is not a departure from
socialism, which never existed in Cuba. The Castro regime was
established in 1959 as the result not of a working class revolution,
but rather the coming to power of a radical nationalist guerrilla
movement that forged an alliance with the Soviet Stalinist
bureaucracy in the face of the implacable opposition of Washington to
even minimal reforms."

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COMMENT: Yet another perfectionistic tendency which thinks that there never
was a socialist revolution in Cuba. This is mainly because some group like
themselves didn't lead it. Their website does sometimes have well-written
movie reviews and analytical articles, but their political framework does
not allow any other possibility for politics other than their schema. To
their way of thinking, the Cuban leadership has simply never got it right.)
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Cuban "reforms" promote private property and social inequality
By Bill Van Auken
17 April 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/cuba-a17_prn.shtml


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