tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post1162745265731223037..comments2023-11-16T03:57:05.158-05:00Comments on The Cuban Triangle: Instant capital formationPhil Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06724525896667349935noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-61914189163238255632011-11-07T09:56:56.610-05:002011-11-07T09:56:56.610-05:00anon at 10:07, sorry, we differ...my concept of ri...anon at 10:07, sorry, we differ...my concept of rights includes economic rights, the right to engage in basic transactions without restriction by the government; it does not include the idea of a right to have a stock of housing assured by the government... which in practice translates into the right to have not enough housing to go aroundPhil Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724525896667349935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-79205027165212189412011-11-05T20:34:03.503-04:002011-11-05T20:34:03.503-04:00What is also good about the lifting of this prohib...What is also good about the lifting of this prohibition is that it also allows Cubans to own another home, be it in the beach or in the countryside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-71457835999441922802011-11-05T14:24:06.003-04:002011-11-05T14:24:06.003-04:00This is favorable because it is a measure of econo...This is favorable because it is a measure of economic liberalization that creates the conditions for market reforms.<br /><br />The cons are that both it and the authorization for the sale of cars are a measure to allow the process of primitive capital accumulation to allow the nomenklatura to transform itself into a neoburgeouisie.<br /><br />The measure works in two stages, In the first the nomenklatura appropriates the houses and cars of all Cubans leaving the country.<br /><br />In the second it resells these properties back the relatives of those expropriated in exchange for foreign exchange provided by the original victims.<br /><br />We must not forget that the Cuban totalitarian regime can at any time assign to its members new homes and cars at a subsidized price which is much smaller than its market price.<br /><br />This permits them to obtain a profit when reselling them that is the primitive accumulation that is necessary to create new private firms and to become the new bourgeoisie.<br /><br />The Cuban totalitarian regime has managed to live off its victims during 52 years by charging them outrageous prices and fees to travel to Cuba and by making huge monopoly prices for the unrationed goods it sells to its relatives in the island for the remitances they receive from abroad. <br /><br />Not content with this it is now scheming to force its victims to finance its process of primitive capital accumulation by having to buy back with foreign exchange its own property for its remaining relatives in the island.<br /><br />There seems to be no way that the Cuban community living outside of the island can avoid being shaken down by the Castro regime while attempting to aid their impoverished relatives in the island.<br /><br />Paradoxically all this parasitism comes from a regime that claims to have overcome the "exploitation of man by man"!<br /><br /> CantaclaroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-62794122214610239862011-11-04T10:07:31.312-04:002011-11-04T10:07:31.312-04:00very good news, yet another propaganda point for t...very good news, yet another propaganda point for the counter-revs bites the dust. lets see how it all shakes out, but its exciting news<br />one point -- this is not a human rights construct. human rights is the availability of housing, which the cuban govt has tried to fulfill. the setting up of a system to capitalize on property is a civil rights issue, not human rights. please dont continue to obfuscate the difference, it's a cheap trip the hardliners use; you're better than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com