Collapse

ive been watching how its played out for a long time and its pretty much a complete shitshow now. There are some videos where people sneak off into the non-tourist areas and really see what living is like and its bleaker than its ever been. All the cuban post soviet successes have really ultimately succumbed to entropy at this point. Sadly a lot of the successes that were sociopolitical innovation have not really been well documented , things like different types of ownership and use structures of land or distribution, cooperative organization and subsidiarity etc.. , things that were sort of clearing away cultural and legal impediments to production , distribution and consumption that would be perfectly applicable in 1st world democratic capitalist bureaucratic hellscapes as well. Look at how illegal sustainability is in places like california for example, or how housing is in incredible deficit purely from self imposed artificial scarcity. There was substantial institutional reform in cuba but it still ultimately couldnt fight physics , too little too late when losing primary inputs like energy. It wouldnt surprise me to see worst of all worlds for somewhere like the usa. no institutional reform to take the edge off