The failure of Castroism's economic proposals

By: Pedro Corzo - 19/06/2024

Guest columnist.
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There is no political or ideological proposal that does not have its perjurers. An issue in which Castro's totalitarianism, a paradigm of failed but lasting projects, has an extraordinary harvest. And with the particularity that some of those denied are still hooked on the nostalgia of the longing to return to what they were.

Power, however modest, must be very rewarding. These subjects said and believed that they had abandoned the ideas they defended and the government they supported with all the responsibility that that implies. However, settled in the wide meadow of capitalism, with a lot of grass available, they remain stubbornly stuck in archaic economic, social and political formulas that have proven ad nauseam to be a failure.

Paradoxically, while we have Marxists in exile determined to spread ideas contrary to freedom and citizen rights, Cuban prisons are full of men and women, mostly young, born after Fidel Castro declared Cuba Socialist in 1961. This youth opposes the dictatorship of the proletariat, a proposal, a dictatorship, that in itself should be rejected by anyone with common sense and that these titled professors continue to defend from their university recliners.

After failing in Cuba and other quagmires identified with socialism or Marxism, they continue defending expired proposals and admiring personalities who could have been notable in the management they carried out for their connivance with the project that foundered.

I admit that I had not realized this reality until a few days ago, when sharing with a great friend who held important positions in the ideological framework of Castroism, he drew my attention to former colleagues of his who broke with insular totalitarianism without ceasing to long for it.

He told me that, despite having been a sincere breakup, they continued to think that Marxism is a serious solution to humanity's problems and that to a certain extent they remember the times when their relative prominence allowed them to leave some mark. Management from which they have not given up in the teaching courses they teach.

First of all, I must reiterate my conviction that the Castros were never Marxists, they assumed that ideology because the Kremlin and the Soviet CPSU paid the bills and threatened them with their missiles. However, I am convinced that insular Marxism would have resulted in the same failure as the Castro proposal, as has been the balance in all parts and times where the ideas of the man of Capital have prevailed. A reality that apparently these so-called repentants are unable to appreciate.

These guys, my friend said, confess themselves to be Marxists and continue to propose socialism as an answer to the problems. It says that some admit that Castroism was a failure due to its own dynamics, imposed and characterized by Fidel Castro, I say, which allows us to appreciate that, if some renounced Castroism and not Marxism, there will be no shortage of those who defend totalitarianism out of loyalty to the maximum leader.

However, it is appropriate to recognize that it is not the bastards of Marxism or Fidel Castro who are the only ones who remain confused. There are thousands of people from different professions and of proven talent who continue to be committed to defending proposals that have been proven ad nauseam, except for those who do not want to see or hear, that they are unfair and inappropriate because they are contrary to human nature.

This situation is seen even in institutions linked to Education such as LASA, Association of Latin American Studies, considered the largest organization of professionals in the world, who has just awarded the 2024 Prize for Excellence to the Cuban economist Jose Luis Rodríguez García, former Minister of Economy of Cuba from 1995 to 2009, “for his immense contribution to the development of Cuban economic thought and his extensive intellectual production with significant contributions to the economic history of Cuba and its development.”

If it is true that you will know them by their fruits, what have been the fruits of this man? The Cuban economy under Castroism has always been a disaster and the period in which Rodríguez García was minister was no exception, consequently, everything seems to indicate that those frustrated by Castroism, but worshipers of Marxism, reward the past they lived, although have abandoned it.

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