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Cuba is still pretty crap I'm afraid. Like with the USSR, you're not exactly fairly electing your foreman or your governor. Emma Goldman would call it state-capitalist.

The reason the old Marxist parties called themselves social-democrats, before they sold themselves out so bad that the name changed meaning, was because it was conceived that socialism would involve democracy in every facet of social life rather than just electing a parliament.

The Leninists and reformists have failed to bring about this dream, but it is a fair dream to strive towards. Class society and the state (including alleged democracies) restrain people's control over their own lives and turn us into mere order-takers content with scraps. The struggle for more than mere scraps and the struggle for self-management and autonomy are in truth the same struggle, which is the struggle for that dream.

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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