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The Cuban Communist Party launched a public consultation regarding government economic proposals.

Representatives and members of Cuban civil society groups will participate in a public consultation process in order to debate the major economic proposals agreed upon during the seventh Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) last April.

Cuba’s Granma newspaper reported on Tuesday that the four-month long consultation process will assess aspects from two key documents approved during this year's PCC Congress.

The proposals included in the two documents aim to clarify and examine the key features of the country’s socio-economic model, according to Granma.

“These two documents are broad in scale and complexity, which outline the Cuba’s revolutionary process and our society’s future towards building a prosperous and sustainable socialism,” Granma wrote in it’s editorial piece on Tuesday.

The public evaluation process will likely examine proposed structural economic reforms such opening up the private sector, and easing migratory policy, giving individuals the right to purchase and sell their own homes and cars and loosening the tax and foreign investment law.

This consultation process seeks to “enrich and perfect” the documents agreed upon during the seventh PCC congress, Granma wrote.

“The active participation of millions of Cubans is indispensable in consolidating the future of Cuba,” the Granma editorial added.

During the seventh PCC meeting, Cuban leader Raul Castro emphasized that all proposals will need to be incorporated into the Constitution, and any reform initiative should be approved by the National Assembly, and submitted to an extensive process of popular participation, including a constitutional referendum, he noted.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cubans-Begin-Country-Wide-Debate-on-Prosperous-Socialism-20160615-0017.html


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thank you Satan and hear from the Granma
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cant wait for cuba to join the ranks of free and liberated caribbean states like haiti and puerto rico
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what is the party line on the cuban revolution and its stewardship under the castro fami-

*gets shoved aside by a young entrepreneur*

the 'party line' in cuba is now Big Fat Cigars!
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If you're going to call Cuba non-socialist for opening trade relations with capitalist countries and allowing limited forms of private ownership I've got some bad news for you....
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Occupied Aztlan
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I think it'd be pretty fucking cool to have a national referendum on various economic policies, but that might just be my desire for actual democracy.

Viva cuba
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Occupied Aztlan
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Because I'm already getting messages about how referendums aren't socialist I feel I should say I was referring to the consultation in context with how Cuba drafts a number of other laws that don't make the news in the same way. Its a neat practice, though it leads to people calling the legislature a rubber stamp operation.
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Mike Nelson here.
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Too many foreign leftists assume that Cuba should be like isolated socialist jihadists for the cause or whatever. If they went full blown socialist-in-one-country in a world where like half of Latin America is being coup'ed then they'd end up like Albania in 1980 and you'd have cops chasing down youths for listening to Michael Jackson or whatever. Venezuela had the right idea when it was like... yeah... Cuba has problems.... our solution is to give them a lot of oil to help.
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getfiscal - anything you recommend reading on Albania post-Hoxha?
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Mike Nelson here.
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karphead posted:

getfiscal - anything you recommend reading on Albania post-Hoxha?

I don't know anything about it really. Well I know one thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania

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Urbandale posted:

Because I'm already getting messages about how referendums aren't socialist I feel I should say I was referring to the consultation in context with how Cuba drafts a number of other laws that don't make the news in the same way. Its a neat practice, though it leads to people calling the legislature a rubber stamp operation.



i get the feeling no matter what the drafting process was the prevailing narrative on cuba's legislature or the legislature of any socialist country for that matter would be "it's a rubber stamp operation"