Adam,
How would an "independent Cuban parliament" constitute popular
participation in policy making? How is a parliament "independent"?
Independent of what? Are you equating elections with democracy?
I don't have much faith that you understand the structure of socialist
governments in this century (or capitalist "democracies" for that
matter). But socialist states have generally involved more worker and
peasant participation than the polyarchic structures that exist in
capitalist social formations.
Andy