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[Marxism] Che Guevera - Myth and Reality



They are a state capitlalist
nation with socialized medicine and education, again, a qualitiative step to
the left, that would be revolutionary in a place like
the US, but it still isn't Socialism.

Reply:

Or perhaps socialist with a state capitalist dual economy?

The point is that socialism, capitalism, etc., are NOT fixed categories but
processes - i.e., transitional states of development. That the Cuban
Revolution resulted in the expropriation of its bourgeoisie is a matter of
historical
record, that it expropriated the property of international capital is too,
and implemented a planned economy, land reform, healthcare, a nationwide
literacy programme - these are absolutely and definitely socialist advances.

Of course, missing conveniently from your analysis is the role of material
conditions, the transitional nature of socialist development as it emerges from
in Cuba's case a very primitive capitalism, and the huge pressure arrayed
against its development by US imperialism.

State Capitalism is an intellectually unsustainable theory popularised by
Tony Cliff in order to distance himself and his party from the Soviet Union
and
'really existing socialism' during the Cold War. It is, in truth,
revisionism motivated by this petit bourgeois retreat.




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