Cuban lawmakers approve new constitution which heads to referendum - Polidicks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-constitution/cuban-parliament-green-lights-new-constitution-heads-to-referendum-idUSKCN1OL0OF Havana (Reuters) - Cuban lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a revised draft of a new constitution that retains the island’s one-party socialist system but reflects its socio-economic opening since the fall of the Soviet Union. Seems it sounded like very small road of... reforming its socialist state like China. And it's the second national referendum in Cuban history.

seems mixed. The government only reformed those parts it wanted to, while ignoring other parts it didn't want to touch, and the people aren't getting any more political power. On the other hand it does appear to make a lot of strides towards private ownership, private businesses, and a legitimate non-state run economy.

baby steps.

I feel as if this is really the best way to go about it. Rapid capitalism and privatization probably would lead to a rapid wealthy elite coming to control the island much like it was before the revolution.

That will happen anyway. Happened here, after all.

The American revolution was never really about socialism.

That's exactly what happened in Albania, Rare Earth made a video about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUtU0tOmNE

Why is it implied that private ownership, business, and a non-state run economy are things a country should strive for? It's not like it's working anywhere.

The completely state-run has failed spectacularly so it's not not as if there's a better option out there.

I don't know that capitalism is doing a much better job except because of inertia

At least with capitalism, some form of democracy and civil rights present is the norm. With state-run countries like Cuba and China, the people have virtually no representation or say in government. There are obvious flaws with capitalism, especially if it's let loose to run wild, but at the end of the day I think it far better than the alternatives.

It's not like capitalism or communism prevent either of those things, it's just that most communist revolutions have been hijacked by a charismatic dictator. The same can and did happen in China with it's capitalist revolution.

It hasn't failed as much as capitalists - most of the modern world - would have you believe. In fact, the infant mortality rate is lower in Cuba than it is in the US, just to name one improvement.

But we don't want a 100% state-run country, we also don't want a 100% capitalist country Scandinavian countries are doing very well and they're a mix of both

The idea that capitalism gives itself to democracy and that capitalism promotes democracy is a myth. Nazi Germany supported a capitalist economy, corporatism as a key part of Italian facism, fascists like Franco, military dictators like Pinochet, and far-right anti-democrats like Putin and Bolsonaro are hardly bastions of democracy. The fact is that there are more examples of capitalism turning to dictatorships than there are of communism doing the same. Personally I believe that dictatorships is where capitalism naturally leads. You only need look at the domination of big companies to see that democratic will and rights are consistently undermined. It may not be dictatorship in its typical form, but it's one force depriving people of a voice.