Cuba: Who will govern the market?

(First published at La Joven Cuba. Translation by LINKS International 
Journal of Socialist Renewal.)

Despite consensus on Cuba’s economy needing reform, the measures 
announced on June 25 have raised more questions than answers. They come 
amid a crisis combining a drop in production, a collapsing energy sector 
and a migration exodus, worsened by the tightening US blockade. Under 
these circumstances, it is impossible not to ask who will be able to 
accumulate wealth, what will happen to workers in the least profitable 
sectors, how bureaucratic privileges will be stopped from mutating into 
oligarchic forms, and what role the market will play.

Can this package of reforms be viewed as a simple technical adjustment 
to get out of this distressing crisis?

To contribute to the debate, Ariel Dacal Díaz spoke with Cuban 
researcher Wilder Pérez Varona, a PhD in philosophy, writer and 
researcher, who has analysed the reshaping of the political imagination 
in Cuba, particularly within the digital ecosystem. He is a postdoctoral 
researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research 
Council (CONICET) from the National University of Quilmes.

Wilder examines how the reform will redefine power relations, the social 
structure starting to take shape behind the rhetoric of “perfecting 
socialism”, and whether this can be sustained without transforming the 
political system.

In full:

https://links.org.au/cuba-who-will-govern-market


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