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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

developing a competitive industrial base is a must for any serious socialist movement, one of my largest criticism against Cuba it's the lack of will in developing production, in stark difference with the DPRK.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like the combination of their natural environment and ruthless, relentless embargos severely restrict their ability there. Plus having the USA permanently there can't be helpful to that endeavor.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There could be an argument for the tropical environment hindering production due to higher costs, machines breaking down faster, maybe lack of a mining industry, etc... But still i still think they don't do enough, their production is still on a pre-industrial stage are which should be embarrassing for any communist party with more than 10 years in power. In contrast with the DPRK whom is an industrial powerhouse with a very similar economic blockade.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the DPRK has the benefit of having a land border with a friendly power, whereas Cuba is 13.5k km from the PRC by ship which is a far harder transport method to ignore embargoes with
on top of that, Cuba needs oil for power and are a net importer even with their relatively low consumption
they do have oil deposits, but it is of a difficult to refine kind of oil, requiring advanced machinery that would need to be imported
all of this on top of being an island in the middle of a heavy hurricane zone
Cuba has it very rough