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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

The Actualization of Cuban Socialism

By José Azel l March 6, 2018

The 2011 VI Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, to ratify General Raul Castro’s economic directives- including the firing of 500,000 state employees- was viewed by some with hope that finally Cuba was moving toward a market economy; by others with substantial skepticism and by Marxists with horror as a betrayal of communist orthodoxy.

So where is Cuba headed? Most likely, nowhere fast.

Ironically, the official announcement of the firings was made by the Cuban Workers Union (CTC) – the Communist Party-controlled labor union. Anywhere but in repressive totalitarian regimes, an announcement dismissing ten percent of the government’s work force would have been met with the massive protests and international indignation usually associated with reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank.

In Cuba there was nary a peep on the streets.  Add to this, Fidel Castro’s apparent Freudian slip that the “Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore” and you have a textbook recipe for ideological bewilderment, bureaucratic paralysis, opportunism, uncertainty, incongruous policymaking, and more.

In the Cuban version of Orwellian doublespeak, the dismissal measures are labeled as an “actualization of socialism,” where the government will grant permits for those fired to seek to make a living “outside the state sector.” It is unspeakable to talk of a private sector........To Read More....

My Take - No matter what these socialist planners set into motion - they will fail.  Why?  Because every one of these nations fails to put into place the number one foundational reason American capitalism excels in the world, and that's the right to own property.  Russia, China and all the rest, it's the government owns the property.  There can be no real enterprise without that one underlying right, and that right must be foundationally guaranteed, just as it is in the U.S. Constitution. 

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