Raul Castro lays down the law (of capitalism)
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Quote:We would be happy to see that the salaries earned by those workers who work in those sectors recording the most efficient results and reporting benefits of particular economic and social impact are gradually increased.
However, I should state very clearly that we can not distribute a wealth that we have not been capable of creating. Doing so would have serious consequences for the national economy as well as for the personal finances of each and every citizen. Pouring out money into the streets without an equivalent increase in the offer of goods and services will generate inflation, a phenomenon that, among other harmful effects, would reduce the purchasing power of salaries and pensions, which will particularly affect the most humble. And we can not allow that to happen.
The first year of implementation of the new salary policy in quite a few enterprises has revealed that there has been a violation of the salary cost index per every gross value-added Peso. In other words, higher salaries have been paid without the corresponding backing in production. On several occasions I have warned that this should be considered as a serious, very serious indiscipline that should be resolutely confronted by the administrative cadres and trade union organizations.
The fact that in our social system, trade unions defend workers’ rights is secret to no one. To effectively do so, trade unions should be the first to look after the interests of any given workers group, but also the interests of the entire working class, which are essentially the same interests defended by the entire nation.
We can not leave any room for selfishness and greed to thrive and consolidate among our workers. We all want and need better salaries, but first we have to create wealth and then distribute it according to the contribution each one can make.
We can see there will be no problem accommodating the credo of Wall St regarding pay in Havana and also it seems they have a tax evasion problem in Cuba too.
This is standard stuff in the state capitalist countries and could have been said at any time in the last 50 or so years — and was, even by Che Guevera when he was Minister of Industry.
As you say, very standard, yet too obvious for the apologists to admit. What's that biblical saying about the mote in the eye? Another exposition of the wages system by a Chinese source reiterating "to each according to work"http://marxistphilosophy.org/xue.pdf
But before you yourself provide the link about Cuba http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2008/no-1250-october-2008/cooking-books-1-cuba%E2%80%99s-wage-system
An anarchist critique of Cuba with a side-swipe at Marx and the Internationalhttp://dissidentvoice.org/2014/12/an-anarchist-critique-of-the-cuban-revolution/
What we can expect apparently from this American – Cuba thaw in relations is an invasion of golfers.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cubas-golf-revolution-but-will-the-revolutionary-nation-take-bourgeois-game-to-its-heart-9947413.html
The followers of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Latin America, and the USA, they do not have a clue of what socialism really is, and now with the emerge of Chavez and the so called socialism of the XXI century the confusion is much bigger. The Cuban government has been advocating wage slavery since they took power in 1959. Che Guevara advocated for a moneyless society and then, he became the president of the Central Bank of Cuba. The Venezuelan government pretty soon will pull out the plug because they have been carrying on their back a huge capitalist crisis with th the price decrease of the petroleum.The workers' unions they are like in China which are controlled by the state, the capitalist is the boss of the workers union, and most union leaders are members of the Cuban Communist Party The average Americans do not have a clue of what really took place in Cuba, and they do not know what is taking place at the present time, their only aim is to go to Cuba to play golf, tennis, lay on a beach, drink beers and rum, and smoke Cuban cigars. Cuban socialism is only a joke, but the problem is that millions of workers in the whole world believe that it is a socialist country, and they have had a very effective machinery of propaganda
alanjjohnstone wrote:http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/26/cuba-will-not-renounce-its-ideas/Quote:We would be happy to see that the salaries earned by those workers who work in those sectors recording the most efficient results and reporting benefits of particular economic and social impact are gradually increased.However, I should state very clearly that we can not distribute a wealth that we have not been capable of creating. Doing so would have serious consequences for the national economy as well as for the personal finances of each and every citizen. Pouring out money into the streets without an equivalent increase in the offer of goods and services will generate inflation, a phenomenon that, among other harmful effects, would reduce the purchasing power of salaries and pensions, which will particularly affect the most humble. And we can not allow that to happen.The first year of implementation of the new salary policy in quite a few enterprises has revealed that there has been a violation of the salary cost index per every gross value-added Peso. In other words, higher salaries have been paid without the corresponding backing in production. On several occasions I have warned that this should be considered as a serious, very serious indiscipline that should be resolutely confronted by the administrative cadres and trade union organizations.The fact that in our social system, trade unions defend workers’ rights is secret to no one. To effectively do so, trade unions should be the first to look after the interests of any given workers group, but also the interests of the entire working class, which are essentially the same interests defended by the entire nation.We can not leave any room for selfishness and greed to thrive and consolidate among our workers. We all want and need better salaries, but first we have to create wealth and then distribute it according to the contribution each one can make.We can see there will be no problem accommodating the credo of Wall St regarding pay in Havana and also it seems they have a tax evasion problem in Cuba too.
I will not call it tax evasion. Foreign corporations do not have to pay taxes for a period of eight years, it is a law approved by the Cuban national assembly. It is a very attractive law for the American investors, the European capitalists have been eating a good piece of the cake for several years, and John Paul II was their intermediaryThey had the same law in Puerto Rico, and at the end of the tax exemption period, most company used to pack and leave to others free taxes heaven, some moved their operations to China, El Salvador, or the Dominican Republic.In some Caribbean islands the American and European capitalists had what used to be called a 'Free zone", and in those free zones they had factories and stores free of taxation, low pay wages, most works were performed by women, and most of the factories were closed, and a huge army of unemployed was created.Probably, tourism will shift from the Dominican Republic to Cuba due to the fact that Cuba is located at 90 miles from Miami, and that might affect the economy of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.The negotiations between Cuba and the US did not start 18 months ago, it was not stated by Obama either, it started during the government of Bill Clinton. I might say that the Cuban government wanted to negotiate with the Americans since 1959, it was their first choice before the Russian capitalists. I do remember when I was very young when Castro said that he was supporting a green revolution and that he was not a communist, and the Castroist do not remember now when the Chinese and the Albanian were hitting pretty hard on the so called Soviets social imperialists and their colonial puppets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_convertible_peso Cuba convertible Pesos. If the US and Cuba enter into commercial trade, probably, they would be forced to eliminate the so callled convertible pesos. In Venezuela they are trying to implement the same monetary system due to the fact that the country is running out of Divisas, or reserve of American dollars
Those with an interest in Cuba will find much in this interview/article worth the while to read. It seems to be a very measured analysis, dispelling some of the anti-Castro rhetoric but still maintaining an overall critical approach, but, imho, it is a still a bit too sympathetic to Cuban apologistshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/anarchism-and-communism-in-cuba/I'll provide the link to part 2 when it comes on-line
alanjjohnstone wrote:Those with an interest in Cuba will find much in this interview/article worth the while to read. It seems to be a very measured analysis, dispelling some of the anti-Castro rhetoric but still maintaining an overall critical approach, but, imho, it is a still a bit too sympathetic to Cuban apologistshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/anarchism-and-communism-in-cuba/I'll provide the link to part 2 when it comes on-lineIn Cuba the Anarchists had more influence within the working class than the Stalinists, the Leninists and Trotskyite. The Anarchists were part of the huge emigration of 1960.
Part 2 can now be read herehttp://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/whither-cuba-us-relations/The author is even more sympathetic to Cuba's position.He describes Cuba as not being a "one-man show" but instead governed by "a tradition of collective leadership", … a distinction without a difference, in my opinion
alanjjohnstone wrote:Part 2 can now be read herehttp://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/whither-cuba-us-relations/The author is even more sympathetic to Cuba's position.He describes Cuba as not being a "one-man show" but instead governed by "a tradition of collective leadership", … a distinction without a difference, in my opinionIt makes not difference, it is a ruling class. The same one as the Soviet Nomenklatura
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