The advantages of the Socialism of the 21st century in Cuba

Victor and Sanchez
Independent journalist
victorernestosanchez@ymail.com

SANTIAGO OF CUBA - November 3, the 2009 (www.miamiprogressive.com) Cuban nomenclature, through studies of psychology of masses has reached the conclusion, that the population would mainly accept with affability certain advantages of the Socialism of the 21st century in Cuba. Of course, it must reconstruct the country under new norms of sociopolitical organization, that are those that will allow: that the end of the historical leadership does not produce a collapse of the system and that one pretends economic relaxation, social and political it causes that the population does not repair or shows interest reason why it happens in the high sphere of the nation.

Which are the projections that can be intuited?

In the economic thing, one anticipates the crossing of the local gastronomy at deprived hands, the benefit of some transport services, markets, retail commerce, smaller rentings and some other services. The economic activity on a large scale will be exclusive of the foreign investment, in association with the national capital, that will be represented by the descendants of the nomenclature, so that little by little it is transformed into private capital, under the assumption of decentralization and the desestatización of the economy.

There is a great number of civil servants who wait for anxious this economic opening, that he would make possible to invest a great amount to him of dollars that have removed of state organizations. Also they will be able to have a great economic participation, those people who very lucrative product of the black market and services are accumulated a great capital. These will be important part of the great Cuban business.

The politician will have his greater transformation in the celebration of multi-party elections. The multiparty system and the taking of the power by means of elections are the essence of the Socialism of the 21st century. The origin democracy is the letter of marque to impose the indefinite re-election, the most attractive condition of this new form to govern and that in addition enjoys the consent and international approval.

The Cuban opposition is not, nor will be able to enfrenar the machinery of the Communist of Cuba, to at least short Party or medium term.  A fragmented opposition, that will go with a great number of candidates, in its eagerness to demonstrate its great opening and democratic participation, will lose in fact his first pluralistic elections. Other many political concessions would be granted for the central objective, to assure the familiar patrimony the historical leaders of the Revolution.

Some political measures will have a great social content, like the elimination of the card of supplying and the liberation of the trips, as much of entrance as exit of the country. This last measurement needs the participation of the United States to eliminate the Law of Adjustment, that grants a series of privileges to the Cuban immigrants, even within the North American society. Many measures are not going to be of the affability of certain social groups, but they do not have capacity to change the decisions, that emanate of the own structures of being able.

Although in the politician all the parties will be allowed, the organizations of the civil society are going to find a great resistance. The pro-government officials are going to enjoy all the privileges and legitimacy before any project and the international cooperation.

In the judicial thing the sacrifice of greater cattle and the commercialization of their meat will be suspended to some prohibitions like. Some restrictions as far as the earth possession and the import of equipment and machineries, as well as of transport, including automobiles also will be eliminated.

The analysis of all these realities, locates this position like of reformist. Nevertheless, a genuine democracy, as they visualize many it, that is that to them the account passes to everything what comes or comes from the Castro regime, seems to be an utopia, since there is no an alternative political structure that can turn around that reality.

Before this situation, many are asked: Is worth the pain the present fight by the democracy, if the nomenclature is going to leave as inheritance the handling of threads of the power? If, clearly. The democracy is constructed, if the democratic game is allowed, although are not in the power those of which we are in favor. We know that the Socialism of the 21st century is not a genuinely democratic process, but its greater flexibility will be the sufficient thing as to give a vote him of approval by a great part of the population.

The regime begins to question old woman positions. A colleague commented to me as already she questions the Round Table and personages of ample public presence through means, like Luis Alberto Garci'a and Armando Tomey, actors very recognized, pretend like dissidents, part of that new official dissidence.

That practice already is well well-known by the Latin American left. The Salvadoran presenter of television, Mauritius Funes, assumes the presidenciable roll and gains the elections, representing a party that comes from one of the bloodiest guerillas of America Center.

Although many have not occurred whatever or they do not want to realize, the introduction of the Socialism of the 21st century already began. One of the first steps is very generationally to compare the structures of government from the intermediate pictures and average stops, so that they do not interfere with the moral authority of the person designated by the Communist Party to represent it in the electoral fight. In the street, at least this way in Santiago of Cuba, it is speculated on that it can be Alexander I castrate Spin, the unique son man of Raul I castrate.

If the internal and external opposition assumed with east responsibility challenge, could juagar a great paper in this democratic confrontation. The opposition municipalities would be the suitable structure to force to the regime to a better balance and to have to compete under better rules of the game.

To many, the frustration does not let them believe in this possibility, but it does not tell on a political machinery that it manages to defeat the established power. We must accept the challenge and impose by means of the exercise, the democracy in functions. We close by follow the maneuver of the regime and will be able to see how, the frog of the fable, when warming up itself the water little by little cooks in the bathtub, without jumping.

The Cuban Government will give to his greater impulse to this process during the present mandate of Barack Obama and the international conjuncture of Latin America and the position him of Spain, like part of the European Union. That same coalition that has impelled the restitution of Manuel Zelaya, in flagrant interference in the internal subjects of Honduras. It is to hope that in Cuba they guarantee any political maneuver that imposes the Cuban regime. To see to believe.