[Marxism] China and North Korea (Chinese imperialism)

[Adam Berg]

Well, I don´t know if "Cuba" needs China, but the military beaucracy obviously sees its future in its Chinese comrades - Stalinists turned capitalists.

The "Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A."/GAESA, headed by Raúl Castro, controls large portions of the dollarised economy (Cubanacan, Gaviota, Almacenes, Sasa, Habanos, Cimex etc..). 

So I don´t think it´s just a "tactical move". Large portions of the Cuban leadership wants to be "upgraded" into out right capitalists, and the Chinese path offers such opportunities. 
Joint ventures simply doesn´t satisfy their needs anymore. They´re hungry for more.

An articler from the reactionary and bourgeois "Cuba Study Group" claims that some are educated in European business schools as well.
"..the younger class of rising military stars who run Cuba's commercial enterprises using economic models they learned in European business schools.."
http://www.cubastudygroup.org/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Print&PressRelease_id=1472&suppresslayouts=true

/Adam

Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <ok.president+marxml at gmail.com> wrote: On 2/21/08, Adam Berg  wrote:

>
>  Fidel Castro said in November 1993 that, "..in China over one-fifth of humanity remains under the banner of socialism."
>  http://146.6.146.2/project/castro/db/1993/19931122.html
>  Of course, Cuba still regards China as socialist and as a "friend of the Third World".

That's probably a tactical move on Fidel's part.China is a major
trading partner of Cuba, and Cuba needs China, given the US embargo.

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