There sad and disturbing development according to DropSiteNews.
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/2065526500640645566🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel unveiled a sweeping set of economic reforms Friday, casting them as Cuba’s path through the crisis driven by a “criminal energy blockade” by the United States that has left the island nearly without fuel.
Only 1 oil tanker has reached Cuba in the past 5 months, Díaz-Canel said, a collapse that traces to January, when the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and cut the flow of Venezuelan oil, then threatened tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba.
Havana now endures blackouts of up to 15 hours a day. Among the most devastating consequences of the U.S. policy is that the Cuban government has been forced to postpone tens of thousands of surgeries for its citizens.
The Cuban President today named national defense as the first priority, citing preparations under Cuba’s “Whole People’s War” doctrine. The full 2026 reform program includes:
🔹Enterprise & Markets
🔸 Overhaul the economic management system, easing the conflict between central planning and incentives for production
🔸 Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly [enterprise autonomy is a bad idea]
🔸 Loosen rules on non-state businesses, narrowing banned activities and widening shareholding
🔸 Fast-track approval of stalled private and state MSMEs (mipymes)
🔹 Decentralization & the State
🔸 Expand municipal autonomy, letting provinces import, export, attract foreign investment, and manage hard-currency income on their own
🔸 Restructure and shrink the state, cutting ministries and posts via a public draft law to reduce bureaucracy
🔹 Trade & Investment
🔸 Make foreign trade more dynamic, dropping mandatory intermediaries and favoring importers of raw materials over finished goods
🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for
Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]
🔹 Agriculture & Food
🔸 Reform land use, giving land to those who will farm it, cutting idle plots, and opening input and currency markets to producers across all sectors
🔸 Pursue food self-sufficiency by streamlining bureaucracy for agricultural production
🔹 Fiscal, Monetary & Social
🔸 Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiency [So make things worse for the state sector]
🔸 Redesign monetary policy and the foreign-exchange market, and strengthen the banking system
🔸 Reform wages in the budget sector and move from subsidizing products to subsidizing people
🔹 Energy & Transport
🔸 Expand renewable energy and electric mobility, including local EV assembly, to cut dependence on imported fuel
🔸 Ease vehicle import limits, favoring solar-charged electric vehicles
🔹 Tourism, Commerce & Labor
🔸 Revive tourism through new operators beyond the big foreign chains that have pulled out
🔸 Modernize domestic commerce with electronic invoicing and digital platforms
🔸 Protect young skilled workers with better pay and incentives to curb emigration
Let's hope those loyal to the communist cause in Cuba resist liberalization.
now to hear from the wrong-schizo about how this is a win and you are epsein
They can sell this as doing a Dengism. NK is lowkey doing the same thing btw.
>>2839680Yeah. And their economic system while sturdy clearly did not work post-USSR collapse. Reforms would be needed regardless of the outcome.
>>2839674>🔸 Incentivize foreign direct investment, plus a new role for Cuban-diaspora and resident-Cuban investors as economic actors [Whyyyy?????]because they can bring wares and dollars that cuban economy desperately needs
>>2839683> while sturdy it's anything but sturdy and it didn't really work before the collapse of ussr either or rather was artificially pumped up
>>2839679well call me epstein because i genuinely believe socialism was supposed to alleviate people not sentence them to poverty just to roleplay north korea for ideological reasons
i hope cubans get a chance to live normally
I read people posting "I dont have much hope left for cuba". Im at the "no hope left for cuban communism" stage. It seems more like they are trying to do controlled domilition and trying to transition to state capitalism as cleanly as possible. I wish them the best, no point in suffering for the sake of it.
>>2839777>well call me epstein because i genuinely believe socialism was supposed to alleviate people not sentence them to povertyI only wish that some lunatic has the chance to mash your head into tomatoe pulp. No one wants to be embargoed for 60+ years for "ideological reasons".
>>2839777>well call me epstein because i genuinely believe socialism was supposed to alleviate people not sentence them to poverty It did, but it's not magic. It can't overcome a physical lack of inputs caused by a blockade.
Why dont latinx countries just cuck out to the us and give economic concessions so they can build socialism in peace antaganizing the usa has never worked.
Cuba’s economic reforms are completely justified. Don’t get me wrong it fucking sucks that they have to do this but death is literally at their doorstep and no other country is coming to Cuba’s aid.
>>2839769Are there any remittances coming in at all from the Cuban-American diaspora or is that completely closed off?
>>2839801there are but ironically they are not limited by american sanctions as much as cuban custom office
although thanks to current crisis this might change for the better
>>2839769>because they can bring wares and dollars that cuban economy desperately needs.Giving Cuban-diaspora any economic power is pure stupidity. They are the enemies of the Cuban socialist state.
>Cuba’s economic reforms are completely justified. Don’t get me wrong it fucking sucks that they have to do this but death is literally at their doorstep and no other country is coming to Cuba’s aid.Cuba can survive. They survived the special period, they can survive whatever onslaught.
>>2839813>Cuba can survivehow about letting them live a little, wouldn't that be nice?
I think its fake news
>>2839821its not, they have been reforming for a while; to the point where there exists a petite-bourg class of cubans that are starting to resent the government. the only silver lining is that they seem to hate america as much the Communist party so maybe they'll stay loyal
>>2839791Whether they are justified or not is less important than what the outcome of this will be. No doubt the hope in the US is that even if the pressure doesn't destroy the government, these reforms will introduce and entrench counter-revolutionary elements that will destroy it at a later date.
>>2839786>Why dont latinx countries just cuck out to the us they are all already giga cucked what are you talking about
These are not entirely new developments. Cuba has been offering Cuban diaspora such things for a long time, but the blockade has prevented the diaspora from exploiting it.
Surrendering. Cuba is surrendering, there is no two ways about it, regardless of how it's worded.
But that's not the dishonor, or betrayal you paint it with. The Palestinian resistance was forced into a similar choice not long ago. When they were forced to give up the hostages and sign up a "ceasefire" which, in practice, amounted to concessions to NATO.
Again, not a dishonorable thing to do. It is us, the rest of the fucking world facetiously "upholding morale". Touting whatever excuses are formally given for the surrender, who are at fault. Because we gave them no choice. We told them:
>"Hey we will do literally nothing while you get genocided until you are entirely, physically unable to resist, crippled down to every last man,woman and child."
>"But you do you eh, we are proud of you! Keep up the martyrdom we love it!"
And eventually their rope ran out. There are no more material means to carry out the fight. Hamas did not "masterfully" negotiate shit on worthless paper before giving up the hostages to the superpower holding a gun to every single Palestinian in Gaza (and many outside). The PCC is not liberalizing out of their own will with a gun to their head either (Cubans may survive but the PCC will not, if the blockade is kept until actual societal collapse a la Haiti).
Stop pretending. You validate the claim of the imperialists,the hand holding the gun.
The part that I find sickening, is all the sycophantic, crocodile tears and praise for their martyrdom from the western "left" who forced the most oppressed into these choices by doing literally nothing about the oppressors, at home. Not even a blip on electoralism, nothing. The we praise them for surrendering or condemn them for not fighting harder for out entertainment.
>>2839860Doing Weather Underground stuff wouldn’t have made a difference and you know it
Or maybe we can all just admit that trying to do socialism next to the US is inherently a bad idea. Move to China.
>>2839866Agree.
My diagnosis is that we are all liberals now. And "multipolarism" means navigating the crisis into further liberalism. There is little incentive to oppose most of the imperialist agenda, if the calculus remains that the USA and NATO will exhaust themselves without reasserting US hegemony as the most profitable model. Developing extractive neocolonies is fine, it contributes to the future profitability of the new order while weakening the current one. But socialism?(or hidrocarbon/financial insecurity by rocking the petrodollar) Nobody wants that!
And we are watching it in real time.
>>2839880
In minecraft sever im joking fbi
It's over. North Korea is the only communist country remaining.
>>2839680>NK is lowkey doing the same thing btw.No it isn't.
DPRK has taken steps to remove the private market. Western media was even seething that crackdowns are the 'most extreme' it's ever been this year.
Last vestige of soviet social imperialism is gone, Vietnam will be next! Glory to Mao, death to Khruschevite revisionism
>>2839896vietnam's been no less capitalist than china for decades now, get with the times
>>2839902Vietnam is a rogue nazi Chinese province, it’s Asia’s Ukraine
>>2839674>Grant state enterprises autonomy to set their own wages, dimensions, clients, and suppliers, use their profits freely, and enter the currency market directly>Shift fiscal policy so the budget no longer finances state-enterprise inefficiencyI don't think this is necessarily bad. State-enterprise should be the most efficient they can in regards to certain criterias : delivering X product according to Y constraints.
There is a tendency amongst ML circles to confuse allocation and production. Where if allocation is hindered, this must necessarily mean that production is less consciously managed by the proletariat. This isn't true. Allocation is only coordination of the different sectors of production in regards to an overarching objective. Stalin's plannification for instance consciously underpaid farmers to extract more wealth to reinvest into industrialization.
On the other hand, simply having allocation where enterprise could by themselves allocate the goods serves only to add an extra layer of abstraction devoid of meaning
IF there is no overarching goal. This seems to be the case for Cuba : allocation serves the purpose of ensuring relative stability by being a cushion for unemployment, but now faces the threat of hindering too much productivity to the point it could destroy the entire productive process.
>>2839674Where is socialist China bros?
>>2842136Furthermore I'd add that efficiency is not simply something that can be discarded, it's a fundamental point about production. In the early stages of communism, the production cannot yet be alleviated from the reigns of necessity and must retain some form of M-A-M process. This is a simple fact imposed by reality : scarcity implies some form of distribution, and personal preferences can only cover opportunity-costs if they can translate into preferences.
Efficiency here means that more ressources are offered up for alternative production, and where people are satisfied with this choice. This is also why efficiency is important
when it is constrained by other conscious constraints : emissions of CO2, work-hours etc. Production, the "how", is still determined by the workers, but the ressources that can be freed up are not monopolized and are treated as free allocation for other ressources.
internationalism is fucking dead
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/cuba-unveils-major-reforms-amid-escalating-us-economic-siege
>Cuba's Communist Party has approved a sweeping package of economic reforms aimed at expanding investment opportunities and strengthening the country's economy as Havana seeks to confront mounting hardships caused by decades of US sanctions and the latest escalation of economic pressure from Washington.
>The measures were approved on Wednesday during an extraordinary plenary session of the Communist Party's Central Committee, where around 20 proposals for economic and social transformation were reviewed. The package was presented as one of the most significant economic updates in years and comes as Cuba continues to endure shortages of fuel, food, medicine, drinking water, and prolonged nationwide power outages.
>President Miguel Díaz-Canel has argued that the reforms are intended to modernize the country's economic model while preserving its socialist foundations, as the island faces increasingly restrictive US measures targeting its economy and energy sector.
>Former president Raúl Castro also endorsed the proposals, describing them in a letter to party members as "the most beneficial to the revolution at this time."
>Rather than presenting the reforms as a departure from socialism, Cuban authorities have framed them as a necessary response to sustained US economic aggression. Havana has long argued that Washington's blockade and sanctions are the principal drivers of the country's economic difficulties, limiting access to fuel, investment, international financing, and essential imports.
<Revolution through reform
>The latest reforms seek to mobilize domestic resources by expanding opportunities for private investment, encouraging greater participation by Cubans living abroad, and granting Cuban investors the same conditions afforded to foreign investors. Officials have also announced plans to streamline parts of the state by reducing ministries and public sector positions while giving greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises, which continue to account for roughly 80 percent of the country's economic activity.
>Private businesses, legalized in 2021 and permitted to employ up to 100 workers, are expected to assume a broader role within the economy under the new framework.
>Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz stressed that the measures should not be interpreted as a retreat from the state's social commitments.
>"The reforms in no way imply relinquishing the social responsibility of the state," Marrero wrote on X.
>From Havana's perspective, the reforms are intended to reinforce the Revolution rather than weaken it by generating new sources of investment capable of sustaining Cuba's public healthcare, education, and social welfare systems despite continued external pressure.
<Defying US pressure
>The announcement follows months of intensified US measures targeting Cuba's economy, including restrictions affecting the island's energy supplies, which Cuban officials say have compounded fuel shortages and contributed to prolonged electricity outages across the country.
>A private supermarket owner in Havana, speaking anonymously to AFP, welcomed the changes.
>"I welcome any change that helps revive the dying patient," the shop owner said, referring to Cuba's struggling economy.
>While Washington has repeatedly called for changes to Cuba's economic model, Cuban leaders maintain that the objective of the latest reforms is not to dismantle socialism but to preserve national sovereignty and strengthen the country's resilience in the face of decades of US-led economic warfare. >>2843823So this is the power of multipolarity
>>2843835
The idea of building socialism in one country is doomed. Trotksy was right. Permanent revolution is the only way.
>>2843823that supermarket owner should be shot. also i dont unterstand it: they have been trying "the market" for years now and it never worked, why should it now? sanctions are not disappearing, their infrastructure has gone to shit, private businesses are the epitome of corruption and are just siphoning money away from other needed investment etc…
>>2843926>they have been trying "the market" for years nowHave they? I thought that was just recognizing the already existing informal economy, which is much tamer than this.
Good thing Cuba doesn't have a capitalist liberal democracy, and the proletariat is armed and ready to defend the revolution!
>>2844440My vague understanding is that the previous grey private ventures are being rolled up into state control. Not really sure what that looks like though on the ground.
>>2844459
Venezuela status?
>>2844364
Why does that have anything to do with if it is a compador state or not?
>>2844463
trvke
>>2844624What's the difference between you and a Trotskyite?
>>2844634Trotskyites would say they did so in the October Revolution. The point though is that Trotskyites suck because they constantly shit on AES. Maoists are Trots in denial tbh.
>>2844630The defense of the USSR under Stalin & The PRC under Mao would be big ones.
At the level of theory, a rejection of quick world revolution would be another. Probably a rejection of at least the stagist aspects of permanent revolution as well.
They're going to turn the island into a giant casino don't they?
>>2844748It will be batista's cuba but with pseudo democracy
>>2844730And how does that make any practical difference when neither the USSR or China exist?
Cuba has really taken steps backwards since Fidel, especially with the new constitution solidifying the tolerance of private property under a nominally socialist system, the biggest retreat yet. However, beyond critique of the party and state strategy of the PCC, it's still obvious that both people and party are willing to fight for socialism and its survival in Cuba. I would refrain from trotskyist "pick-and-choose" tactics of dogmatically and rigidly denouncing a socialist country on a whim because its policies are clearly going backwards, if only because it remains socialist (the working class is the primary force and mover in Cuban society, a socialist democratic system of council representation is in place, many of the Cuban revolution's achievements remain intact, the PCC holds a sober and orthodox view of Marxism-Leninism, hell, the party has remained committed to Marxism-Leninism even beyond the overthrow of the USSR etc.). Until an overthrow or invasion, Cuba will remain socialist.
Until then, criticize sure. I despise these mixed market tactics for one, it does not take a learned Marxist to see that capitulation to capitalist relations of production and the world system is a retreat from the process of constructing socialism, not a step forward. But America is currently strangling Cuba, and continue to do so. At least critical solidarity is necessary despite the criticism to not allow defeatism or bourgeois ideology to take hold deeper in society.
That's my two cents.
So, how will market reforms even help if the blockade remains in place?
>>2845156It will help the guys that had insider info and will buy state infrastructure for pennies to make a company
>>2845156They're probably hoping the Americans will take it as a sign of their willingness to play ball and ease the blockade. At this point though they should know that US imperialism is a rabid dog that can't be reasoned with.
>>2845225>US imperialism is a rabid dog that can't be reasoned with.There's also the fact, there's an incentive electorally, for Republicans to take the most hardline position possible, as the Cuban diaspora are out for blood, and revenge. And will make noise, if the US goes soft.
At this point the PCC might be forced to step away from power to come back in liberal elections later like FSLN
>>2844763>both people and party are willing to fight for socialism and its survival in Cubawhen's the last time you've been to cuba?
cuban socialism works about as well as venezuelan did, there's no reason to believe cubans are going to fight any harder than venezuelans did
>>2845241Cuba is not Venezuela. Cuba has Marxism-Leninism as a weapon, and has the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.
>>2845244It’s a fucking small island with no natural resources of its own less than 100 miles from the capitalist hegemon, its union with America is natural and inevitable as China with Taiwan
>>2845251>It’s a fucking small island with no natural resources of its own less than 100 miles from the capitalist hegemon, its union with America is naturalThis is just defeatism.
>>2845260It’s the reality of multipolarism and Great Power Competition, you think any of that right of nations or non aligned nonsense was real?
>>2845265>It’s the reality of multipolarism>non aligned nonsenseI hate retards
So is it over or not?
>>2845269Cuba will be the new Puerto Rico and Taiwan will reunite with China, socialism is not going to happen in the western hemisphere, deal with it
>>2845265I think Cuba has the capacity to defend socialism, in a ruthless life and death struggle.
>"The dictatorship of the proletariat means a most determined and most ruthless war waged by the new class against a more powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie, whose resistance is increased tenfold by their overthrow (even if only in a single country), and whose power lies, not only in the strength of international capital, the strength and durability of their international connections, but also in the force of habit, in the strength of small-scale production. Unfortunately, small-scale production is still widespread in the world, and small-scale production engenders capitalism and the bourgeoisie continuously, daily, hourly, spontaneously, and on a mass scale. All these reasons make the dictatorship of the proletariat necessary, and victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, stubborn and desperate life-and-death struggle which calls for tenacity, discipline, and a single and inflexible will." – Vladimir LeninSo take your "multipolarism" elsewhere, while real socialists and communists, support the interests of socialism.
>>2845287did you know if you quote lenin that makes it true
>>2845279Badempanda is an anti communist moralist.
>>2845292You hide from moral criticism because you are western mafioso in denial, you subsist off the tears of children who mined the minerals in the device you post from
>>2845240i dont even think political reform will save Cuba tbh, the americans want TOTAL capitulation, and will settle for nothing less than a new government filled with florida cuban diaspora
>>2845292So the average contemporary ML?
>>2845367Because capitalism always creates new crises that new socialist movements can be born from
>>2844187yes, thats exactly what i mean. lack of central control and discipline leads to black markets ala corn man, it does not if you put it on paper or not if the state supports it anyway
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