[Marxism] [CubaNews] Circles Robinson on Cuba's "New Freedoms"

[Shane Mage]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Walter Lippmann wrote:
>
> Cuba's "New Freedoms"
>
> By Circles Robinson*
> April 16, 2008
>
> ...Another area where large-scale change has begun is food security.  
> There is a
> new, high-priority focus on farm efficiency and production to reduce  
> costly
> food imports. The plan involves higher prices to private farmers,  
> more land
> to those who need it and greater access to farm supplies, especially  
> geared
> to benefit both family farmers and coops.
>
> The goal is a sharp increase in harvests and livestock production in  
> the
> not-too-distant future, thus increasing the supply of affordable food
> products and adding needed variety to the population's diet...


Fifty years ago, in a country with a 12-month growing season and  
wonderfully fertile land, the Cuban Revolution began with the promise  
of land reform and an end to the colonialist system of sugar  
monoculture.  So after 50 years of broken promises and Stalinist-style  
industrial agriculture the Cuban government is starting to do what it  
promised to do 50 years ago.  Wonderful!

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos