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Editorial
The Moral Defence of Capitalism 
Por Ismael Sambra
ismaelsambra@nuevaprensalibre.com
Translated from Spanish by Eileen Longson
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When something works, it endures. Nothing in the history of humanity
has lasted forever in contrast to the principles that govern evolution
and development. The capacity that enables the philosophy of capitalism
to adapt itself to social and economic practices has given it
the possibility to endure independently from errors and from its
enemies and sworn detractors. If it has not been the best model
for the well being of humanity, at least, no other model has replaced
it and much less superseded it.
The unsuccessful communist model that tried to put theory into
practice has been left behind even though some persist in regenerating
it with subtle opportunistic masquerades. The essence of capitalism,
on the contrary, that takes its principles from practice goes
ahead. What is the reason that pushes it and makes it superior
in spite of the hold-outs, many of them in
the communist left? It is without doubt, freedom. Democracy and
capitalism march together like the most harmonious combination
of structure and superstructure in all civilized society. And
in this, always take advantage in the face of strange monstrosities
that now try to mix capitalism with totalitarianism, like China,
North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba.
The practices of capitalism rise up spontaneously and readjust
themselves in the face of the demands and laws of the market.
They take the gift of curing for themselves their hurts and cutting
out their dry or unproductive branches. Private initiative is
the best tonic. Competition contributes to the quality of each
cure or chronometric remedy.
It is a qualitative process that in the short or medium term results
in benefiting the collectivity. But what happens with the capitalists
that in their desire for wealth negotiate even with the enemy?
The capitalists understand a great deal about yield and productivity;
but very little of ideologies and the moral defence of the system
that by nature promotes and protects them while promoting and
protecting private property as the principal base for production.
Because of this empty ideology the capitalists invest in China,
North Korea, Viet Nam and Cuba, the last traces of communism,
countries that through their ideological essence reject capitalists.
It seems that against this there is no embargo, that forces them
to understand. They mock the ideology by giving oxygen with the
help of their investments to their sworn hangmen.
People easily forget their tragedies and many capitalists seem
to forget that they were victims of confiscations and that they
lost everything when these regimes took power. The moral defence
of capitalism imposes itself as a system that promotes them, that
generates them. But even more many act against it without understanding
that in this game they are playing with their own existence. And
the insistent communists at the edge of the abyss take advantage
of this empty ethic to survive and wait for the moment of revenge.
Fortunately now they are a few and time is running out for them.
And what is to be said of the countries that make a game of them?
The mistaken and conflicting politics of many governments carry
part of the blame. Canada is an example. While condemning human
rights violations in Cuba, it establishes so called "Constructive
engagement", where companies like Sherritt discover and exploit
nickel and petroleum deposits and for a few dollars more they
become vile accomplices in the exploitation of defenceless Cubans
controlled and poorly paid by their regime.
The European Union does something else. After castigating Castro
for two years for the imprisonment of 75 of the most renowned
dissident leaders, it returned to the supposed dialogue with a
deaf person the does not want to hear and shows itself more desperate
than Castro himself in the reestablishment of relations, after
it achieved the symbolic liberation of some political prisoners
instead of all as had been a condition initially for economic
aid.
United States, the country that carries the flag in the fight
against communism, also has contributed directly and indirectly
to the strengthening of its enemies. The politics of favourable
trade with China contravenes the politics of embargo used with
Cuba. And we ask ourselves, why the difference faced with regimes
that define themselves with essentially the same ideology. Both
political systems in their extremes have given disastrous results
precisely for this reason, for being extreme political systems.
Now the U.S. is dealing with the consequences in the face of capitalists
that press to invest in Cuba and in the face of the dangerous
rise of Cuba driven by the capitalists. China, declared by USA
as a preferential nation for development is transforming little
by little into a boomerang. Upon receiving the breath of capitalist
air, the Chinese government recently declared that it is ready
to again be the empire that it was previously before being literally
ruined by communist centralization. Without doubt China is a "made
in USA Frankenstein" and we already know the end of this
story, we already know what the monster does with his creator.
From those contradictory pressures these regimes make a mockery
of themselves. Cuba, after making certain obligatory concessions
to capitalist investment, now returns to the inoperable centralization
of its economy, receiving only gasps of oxygen it can then continue
to blame the American embargo for its inevitable disaster. It
appears a style of these despots to automatically declare themselves
enemies of the United States. It is an old trick to blame and
attack Yankee imperialism in order that those jealous of the wealth
of others desire to steal it away rather than to produce it themselves.
The Venezuela of Chávez is the clearest example and perhaps
the Argentina of Kirchner follows in the same footsteps. It is
like declaring oneself enemy of the cow while nourishing oneself
with its milk. Such ingratitude! It is like taking the fruit and
the shade of a tree while crushing its roots.
What can we do faced with such grand hypocrisy? The fight is hard,
harder when we fight against enemies and traitors, above all when
there are more traitors than enemies. And while so many of the
last despots communist or non-communist survive mocking themselves
of everything, receiving from some "enemies" what others
take away. We know that economic interests go above political
interests and that the failure of communism rested however in
having done the opposite. We trust then that by whatever means
the triumph will continue being ours through the love that liberates
and unites wills and hearts, and through the natural inclination
that steers man towards freedom faced with whatever variant or
modern forms of slavery.
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