/Sounds like 'soh-syoh-LEES-moh'/
A Cuban wordplay on 'socialismo' and 'socio' (buddy) — the informal system of surviving through personal connections and favors rather than official channels. In Cuba, sociolismo is how things actually get done when the system doesn't provide.
"Aquí todo funciona por sociolismo, si no tienes contactos no resuelves nada."
"Gracias al sociolismo conseguí la pintura para arreglar el cuarto. → Everything here works through connections — if you don't have contacts you can't solve anything."
"Thanks to the buddy system I got the paint to fix the room."
/Sounds like 'soh-syoh-LEES-moh'/
A Cuban wordplay on 'socialismo' and 'socio' (buddy) — the informal system of surviving through personal connections and favors rather than official channels. In Cuba, sociolismo is how things actually get done when the system doesn't provide.
"Aquí todo funciona por sociolismo, si no tienes contactos no resuelves nada."
"Gracias al sociolismo conseguí la pintura para arreglar el cuarto. → Everything here works through connections — if you don't have contacts you can't solve anything."
"Thanks to the buddy system I got the paint to fix the room."