Class Consciousness in Cuba
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A Times dispatch from the May Day parade in Havana, Cuba carries this passage:

"We're in this very interesting phase in which the public and private sector collaborate and compete at the same time," said Richard E. Feinberg, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, who is doing a study of Cuba's private sector.

New economic freedoms and the taxes paid by private-sector workers are also beginning to alter the relationship between individuals and the state, analysts say.

"The willingness of people to express an alternative point of view has definitely expanded," Dr. Feinberg said. "But it'll take a while before they begin to develop a class consciousness and a political articulation of their interests."

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Class Consciousness in Cuba
smartertimes.com

A Times dispatch from the May Day parade in Havana, Cuba carries this passage:

"We're in this very interesting phase in which the public and private sector collaborate and compete at the same time," said Richard E. Feinberg, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, who is doing a study of Cuba's private sector.

New economic freedoms and the taxes paid by private-sector workers are also beginning to alter the relationship between individuals and the state, analysts say.

"The willingness of people to express an alternative point of view has definitely expanded," Dr. Feinberg said. "But it'll take a while before they begin to develop a class consciousness and a political articulation of their interests."

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