China's solar parks are reshaping Cuba's power grid as the island races to reduce blackouts and fuel dependence.
      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        223·
        9 days ago

        The Cuban social system is not being abandoned because they wanted to but because the US successfully imposed it on Cuba.

              • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
                114·
                8 days ago

                The word “Ultra” is used these days by Hasan Piker stans who get extremely triggered when anyone points out AOC or Mamdani are endorsing another DNC establishment ghoul and entryism isn’t working for the 300th time.

                It’s the equivalent ally calling someone a Tankie, but that doesn’t work anymore so now they moved on to “Ultra”.

                and can’t understand the concept of having to make compromises.

                Your angle of refutation is not that China and Cuba are “making compromises” but “this is good and based actually”.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
                  171·
                  8 days ago

                  The word ultra is used to refer precisely to what Lenin is talking about, it’s equivalent to pointing out that you are a deeply unserious person who doesn’t engage with material reality we live in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-leftism

                  My angle of refutation is that I will never cease to be amazed just how idealistic western left is. I suspect this largely stems from the fact that there is very little actual organizing happening, and most people are just LARPing being a communist online without having any understanding of the complexities involved in a genuine struggle. It’s always easy to criticize real work other people are doing.

                  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
                    111·
                    8 days ago

                    The current online usage is exclusively done by DSA SocDems.

                    There’s a battle between US imperialism and opposing forces and the US is taking a massive W in both Venezuela and Cuba because Leftists international solidarity is apparently “idealism” these days. Even in Palestine both China And Russia have

                    Only Iran is stepping up to the plate.

                    I guess asking for anything more than Zohran Mamdani DSA members but real international solidarity is too idealistic now.

      • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        8 days ago

        I asked and received. Thank you.

        Edit:

        Generalised subsidies that benefit the relatively affluent and the poor alike are to be replaced by assistance targeted at the most vulnerable – retirees, families with chronically ill children, and impoverished neighbourhoods – but the state’s responsibility for healthcare, education, social security and welfare is unchanged.

        This is the main thing in my mind.

        The reforms unquestionably carry risks. A property market, private banks, large firms and remittance-funded investment will tend to generate a propertied stratum, and in the Cuban case along existing fault lines of access to hard currency and family abroad. None of this should be waved away; it is the real cost of the policy. But the wager is a considered one, and it rests on a proposition that China has spent nearly 50 years testing: that a socialist state which keeps political power, public ownership of the commanding heights and the levers of planning and redistribution in its own hands can use markets and foreign capital to develop without being captured by them.

        I’m unclear on property reforms. Are large swaths of land open to private ownership?

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        17·
        8 days ago

        Everyone agrees it’s bad but people are very upset BE points out that the Soviet Union had high levels of international solidarity which gave Cuba a necessary lifeline against US imperialism, but Russia and China are letting the US dictate the terms on Cuba now.

        • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
          8·
          8 days ago

          Russia has been capitalist for a long time, but not imperialist. Cuba is grown up now. Both are helping. What are they supposed to do, say: do this and that? Go in and take over and run things? Cuba is sovereign. This is a Cuban issue for Cuban people.

          Yes what the US does, did is slimey af. And if China or Russia went in telling Cuba they have to do this or that to get assistance, that’s… imperialism.

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
            15·
            8 days ago

            What are they supposed to do, say: do this and that?

            Pass through the US imposed oil blockade and tell the US to go shove it instead of abiding by US imperialist terms.

            Will it come at costs to their own countries? Certainly. But if everyone just thinks of themselves the US will divide and conquer the whole world with ease. First was Venezuela. Now Cuba.

            • Maeve @lemmygrad.ml
              7·
              8 days ago

              Pass through the US imposed oil blockade and tell the US to go shove it instead of abiding by US imperialist terms.

              Do you imagine Cuba has no say in this? Has it occurred to you maybe Cuba doesn’t want this?