The Moral Defence of Capitalism18 mayo 2006
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no other model has replaced it and much less superseded it.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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