Capitalist Reminiscence?

Capitalist Reminiscence? / Cuban Law Association, Wilfredo Vallin Almeida
Posted on February 11, 2014
Wilfredo Vallin Almeida

Many events throughout our existence can be forgotten, but others leave
a deep memory that does not go away. And these events may have had many
demonstrations as they can be taken for granted, a dream, an omission, a
sentence, and even a poster.

With the latter two, much relegated to memory, I was suddenly assaulted
when I least expected it: while watching a video that a friend had sent me.

The video in question relates to an investigation and several arrests
made by the Technical Investigation Department (DTI) of the National
Revolutionary Police. The detainees are involved in fraudulent
transactions whose amount is a whopping 33 million pesos.

The poster that comes to mind at the moment is one I saw I don't know
how many times over many years. It was a big fence on a broad avenue and
on a white background highlighted in red:

The future belongs entirely to socialism.

It's a sign that I no longer see, but it was present during the youth of
Cubans of the generation of the '60s, '70s and '80s, when it was assumed
that the "moribund capitalism" was terminal and that, who could doubt
it?, socialism would be victorious.

The other phrase, I also was reminded of by the sign is:

Crime is reminiscence of capitalist society and will disappear to the
extent that socialism advances.

I read that phrase many times in textbooks of law and Marxist texts that
college students had to study and examine mandatory.

Watching this film, which ends with the words of General President Raul
Castro admits theft where in the country is huge, at all levels and at
all levels, and as, moreover, I see it now flourishing and vigorous than
ever before in the history of Cuba, I then subtracted one question:

What happened to the "capitalist reminiscence"?

10 February 2014

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