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Allende's Chile built a telex-and-mainframe decision system intended to join national coordination with factory autonomy, producing a working communications network and unfinished cybernetic prototypes before the 1973 coup destroyed the political project around them.
Can a nationalized economy gain rapid common awareness without either leaving factories isolated or concentrating every decision at the center?
Cuba's post-1959 order changed repeatedly as a plural anti-Batista coalition became a Communist Party state, Soviet-supported planning collapsed into the Special Period, and later leaders admitted private activity without admitting political competition. Universal health and education, U.S. hostility, economic scarcity, migration, participation, and repression were not separate stories: each transformation redistributed who could provide, speak, leave, and define the Revolution's public good.
How did institutions built to defend sovereignty and universal provision change when Cubans supplied evidence that the revolutionary settlement was failing them?