Where does the “conceptualization of the model” fit in now? What do we do with the guidelines?
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, June 20, 2026 / I was never allowed to join the Communist Party, despite four attempts initiated for having been chosen as an exemplary worker. Too self-sufficient, they said, hypercritical, liberal, undisciplined…
If I were a member of that organization, I would already be handing in my membership card (if I hadn’t already). Or, better yet, I would be rescuing the party from those who are leading the restoration today. The restoration of capitalism, of capitalism without democracy.
To say they remain communists committed to building socialism would be like someone who eats meat in their three daily meals trying to portray themselves as a vegetarian. To deny that they are obliged by pressure from the United States would be as if the supposed vegetarian denies that their landlord, to whom they owe insurmountable debts, owns the butcher shop downstairs.
To say that they remain communists committed to building socialism would be like someone who includes meat in their three daily meals trying to portray themselves as a vegetarian.
To invoke in vain the name of Fidel Castro’s as the inspiration for his reforms is to forget that the commander’s first contribution to Marxism-Leninism was to decree the Revolutionary Offensive of 1968 (for which he never apologized). “Create wealth with conscience,” he said. And then, in the midst of that rectification of errors and negative tendencies, he postulated that “socialism cannot be built with capitalist formulas.”
Am I being reminded of another Fidel Castro? Where does the “conceptualization of the model” stand now? What do we do with the guidelines?
If I were a communist, I would be joining the opposition, the revolutionary opposition to the restoration, because this agenda which has been meekly approved by members of the Central Committee and members of the National Assembly, has been copied, hijacked, from the programs promoted by those whom the communists have labeled as paid enemies of imperialism, with the aggravating factor of excluding political proposals to decree an amnesty for political prisoners and to write in the ink of the laws that no one can be persecuted for disagreeing, that being Cuban means being a free citizen.
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