If Cuba pursued an industrial development plan it would have ended up looking more like Albania than Japan. Socialism in one country is impossible, I don't see anything wrong with Cuba's general economic policy. (and actually I'm a fan of the term "bureaucratic collectivist") On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:09 PM, nada <dwalters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Industrialization to some degree is important or you remain poor, a few > steps away from barbarism. If you combine a socialist mode of production > with a world wide divisions of labor, the *need* to "Industrialize on > One Island" goes away. Ideally... "ideally" .... this is what COMECON > was supposed to represent...a non-capitalist zone of development with a > international, yet equal division of labor. This is still a kind of > model to follow. If something is wrong with it, do speak up. For that > matter, if there is a different model for socialism, that avoids the > huge social and environmental dislocations caused by industrialization, > please speak up on this too, please. Sterile denunciations of the > development of the productive forces is hardly...productive, especially > on a *Marxist* list. > > DW > > ________________________________________________ > YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/bhaskar.sunkara%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
