Stubborn Capitalism Won’t Leave Cuba Alone
June 8, 2016
Stubborn Capitalism Wont Leave Cuba Alone
by Manuel E. Yepe
Havana.
When they talk to Cubans today about the benefits of capitalism and plans are drawn to aid them in the transition to that socio-economic order, they are assuming Cuban citizens suffer from a historical amnesia against which they are vaccinated.
At the birth of the twentieth century, Cuba began a direct transition from its colonial condition to a neo-colonial situation in which all consciousness-forming factors including education, the media and entertainment pointed to the model of a capitalist nation with the US consumer society as a paradigm.
Deeply divided internally on the basis of race, gender, income, political parties and other factors everything took shape according to the dominating interests of the powerful neighbor. Governments were elected following nominations by political parties representing different sectors of the bourgeoisie, almost all depending on their ties with the United States.
Cubas elections were tragi-comic spectacles, initiated with promises and advertisements escalating to blackmail, bribery, scams, fraud and embezzlement. These were occasionally interrupted by cycles of violence that could include US interventions, coups détat and repression with torture and murders. There would be the corresponding responses of rebellion; until the start of a new cycle
similar to the one before.
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