workerpoet Jul 7   #17959   Greatly enjoyed reading this. In practice, the Spanish Mondragon cooperatives seem to me a more direct and practical route to the Marxist ideal than  attempts at derivative Leninism. For us, building cooperatives and networks of cooperatives builds capitalisms replacement. For Cuba and other socialst states struggling under a constant assault by militarized capital, progress is especially challenged and undermined and must be defended against  to preserve even a foundation on which to build the commune. ( Repost etc )