Thursday, July 11, 2013

Don’t Lose Any More Time

Don't Lose Any More Time / Fernando Damaso
Posted on July 10, 2013

In defense of the current Cuban model and its updating within the
straitjacket of the so-called Guidelines, some citizens are frightened
by the idea of the possible restoration of capitalism in Cuba,
mechanically repeating verbally and in writing all the propaganda that
has been overwhelmingly spread by the news media. Nobody stops to point
out the negative aspects of the current model (its main critics lie
precisely within them), they simply deny the positives of change.

Fifty-six years of capitalism in Cuba, despite its shortcomings,
problems, fratricidal conflicts, dictatorships, politics, theft of
public funds and other misfortunes, represented development and wealth,
unlike fifty-four years of socialism, even with its many misfortunes,
which have only represented underdevelopment, involution, lack of
productivity, backwardness, poverty and accumulation of problems, both
old (lack of housing, unemployment, racial discrimination, etc.) and new
(lack of possibilities, exodus, inefficient services, social
indiscipline, arbitrariness, bad manners, rudeness, etc.). These
realities, however much they try, cannot be hidden: they appear whenever
you explore, even superficially, our past and present history.

In recent days, at the current session of the National Assembly, they
have repeated the need to perfect the socialist state enterprise,
forgetting its failure for seventy years in the former USSR, forty in
the former socialist countries, and fifty-four in Cuba. They also have
declared that socialism is the compass. Ideological stubbornness has
never solved any problem.

To continue parroting these absurdities is to lose resources and time.
What's important is to end the current impasse and join the real world.
The work isn't easy, but it will only get harder if we don't all join
together in our efforts to achieve it.

8 July 2013

Source: "Don't Lose Any More Time / Fernando Damaso | Translating Cuba"
- http://translatingcuba.com/dont-lose-any-more-time-fernando-damaso/

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