Down with cuban revisionism

5 - Development of Cuban social-fascism: since the early 90's until nowadays

Indeed, even in historical terms, Castroist "social system" is very far from perfection.For example, Cuban revisionists were never able to solve the problem of lack ofhabitation in their country. Both before Cuban 1959 anti-communist pseudo-revolutionand after it, great numbers of Cuban workers do not have a permanent house where tolive decently. Many of them live with their families in barracks, in temporary buildings,in tiny houses that lack all kinds of sanitary and space conditions or even in the streets[according to some sources, Afro-Cuban laborers are the most affected by poverty, andthey continue to suffer racist discrimination in access to jobs, positions within socialfascist government and administration (even because Afro-Cuban members of Castroistcapitalist-revisionist bourgeoisie are virtually inexistent), adequate houses and even toCastroist "social benefits" ("free" healthcare, "free" education/alphabetization, "free"access to bourgeois-capitalist-revisionist, social-fascist, pro-imperialist and anticommunist "culture", etc). This is far from being astonishing. After all, racism is aninstrument of profit maximization used by oppressive and exploitative classes topromote disunion among workers, to direct their grievances towards convenientscapegoats and to make them forget that all their sufferings are caused by the brutalwage slavagist order to which they are subjected, thus keeping them away from genuinecommunist ideology and aims. Consequently, racism is something inherent to capitalistrevisionist system and can only be totally and definitively removed when capitalism andrevisionism are also totally and definitely eliminated. As this never happened in Cuba, itis inevitable that racism continues to exist in this country]. Indeed, after Castroistbourgeoisie seized power, the habitation problem was even aggravated. Between 1959and 1975, only 210.000 habitations were built in Cuba. This is clearly insufficient, asCuba had a population of about 6,8 million inhabitants in 1959 and of about 10 millioninhabitants in 1978. Cuban social-fascists themselves acknowledge that lack of housingis one of the country's main challenges. According to official estimates, the shortagereached some 500,000 homes as of the middle of the 1990's. 

Thus, Castroist "social system" is not the paradise that many dream about. And this alsoshows Castroist despise towards Cuban proletarians' and workers' well-being.Castroists only want to deceive Cuban workers about their social-fascist nature throughgiving those workers some "social alms" that do not interfere with profit accumulationof Castroist bourgeoisie and of its imperialist and social-imperialist masters. From themoment investments in "social system" reach a value that interferes with this referredaccumulation, Castroists couldn't care less with Cuban working classes' welfare. This iswhat certainly occurs with investments in habitation. But we affirm that even ifCastroists were willingly to try to solve this problem, they would never accomplish itdue to the simple reason that habitation problems can only be definitely and completelysolved under socialism. In fact, there is not a single capitalist, imperialist or revisionistcountry that ever managed to solve habitation problem. In capitalist-imperialistrevisionist world, there will always be homeless people. As earlier as late XIX century,comrade Engels – the 2nd Classic of Marxism-Leninism – had already concluded this.But as Castroist Cuba was never socialist, habitation problems continue to be unsolvedthere and this situation will not change until the country is finally engaged in genuinesocialist construction. Moreover, even accordingly with the parameters of revisionist states, Castroist Cuba's "social system" is nothing outstanding. Indeed, it lags farbehind the "social systems" that existed in other social-fascist states. For example,revisionist social-fascist East Germany had a "social system" that was considerablysuperior to that of Castroist Cuba – and therefore, also much more able to misleadworking masses, of course. 

However, it is truth that during its existence and also nowadays, Castroist Cubacontinues to display features of a bourgeois-reformist "welfare state" that is muchpropagandized by defenders of Cuban revisionism all over the world. In fact, weunderstand that perhaps Cuba can appear as an "example" to many workers of neocolonial nations due to the existence of a relatively accessible healthcare,alphabetization, a somewhat developed "social security system", access to bourgeoiscapitalist-revisionist, social-fascist, pro-imperialist and anti-communist "culture", etc.But this does not excuse the treacherous demagogy of Castroist leaders when they usethese factors as "proofs" that in Cuba "socialism is being constructed". Indeed, not onlyCuban revisionists, but also many other revisionists around the world use this same"argument". For example, when praising Castroist Cuba's "social-system", BritishMaoists claim that: