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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was not aware the Cuban economy had a significant fraction of cooperatives, outside of the more recent growth in the last decade or so.

Hard to get information in or out of a country under siege. You've just got to talk to people who lived there.

It's incredibly hard. And lots of people just want to get out. But the degree to which anything still works in Cuba is mutualism. It's always been mutualism.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's quite distinct from an economy organized around worker co-ops.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Hard to operate a mom and pop shop under an 80 year long blockade.