Raúl Castro on Co-operatives

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Raúl Castro on Co-operatives

What is a state, especially a socialist state, doing administering a barbershop with one chair, or two or three, and with one administrator for a certain number of small barbershops—not many. I mention this example because it was one of the first steps we took. We decided to establish co-operatives; we tried some, and immediately threw ourselves into creating dozens of construction co-operatives. Has no one analyzed the consequences this brought and the problems that this haste created? To mention just one case. And like this one, there are quite a few. This is what I want to say in simple, modest language. Whose errors are these? Mainly, ours, we leaders who developed this policy, although in consultation with the people, with the approval of Parliament, of the last Congress, of the last meeting we held here this past month, to approve all the documents I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks. This is the reality. Let’s not try to block the sun with a finger. Mistakes are mistakes. And they are our mistakes, and if we are going to consider hierarchies among us, in the first place, they are mine, because I was part of this decision. This is the reality.

Raúl Castro (Granma, 17 July 2017)

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Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba

An Agenda for Democratic Social Change

Series:  Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 121
Cover Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba
E-Book ISBN:
9789004361720
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
02 Aug 2018

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