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which have received a correct name.According to the minister what do we have tobe afraid of then? Do we have to be afraid offree enterprise?Cuba needs spaces to create, work and solvethe problems and there is no need ofguidelines dictated from above which lookfor the debate and the support below. Theguidelines have to be also explained andexorcized by the very minister of Economicsto the members of Parliament. Parliament isa name that means: space to talk, tonegotiate, to condense, to argue; it’s a placeto look for an improvement or to rejectthings, not to “explain” things from theplatform to the ones sitting below. In anormal parliament the deputies are the oneswho should explain things to the minister,the ones who demand or amend things; theyeven disapprove them if necessary.FREEDOM AND CITIZEN RESPONSIBILITYIt is good and urgent to rebuild what is leftof the Cuban economy. But the old clothescannot be mended using old cloth becausethe new cloth will widen the rip. The old winecannot be poured into an old wineskinbecause the new wine breaks the old vesseland the wine scatters. The new wine has tobe poured into new vessels so the wine andthe vessels can be preserved” (Mt. 9, 16-17).The “wheat is not to be separated from theweed in advance” (Mt. 13, 30)Half a century has help to show theinefficiency of a model that has denied andrectified itself; it has been corrected andbrought up to date. The problem is not theimplementation of the model. It’s about theessence of the model, its constitutiveelements: the authoritarian and strong-willedcentralization, the state ownership andprocedures; the alienated planning ofresources and needs; the blockade to theprivate initiative and to the true independentcooperatives; the moral and administrativecorruption and the prevalence of the politicaldecisions above the moral, economic andsocial norms. All these foundations of themodel have been unmistakably ratified in thefirst Economic and Social Guidelines whichseem to be and are presented as themaximum of the proposed reforms, howeverfeared.As we can see the situation evidently cannot besolved through much reduced lists ofindependent work. They are just lists,insignificant gifts of permissions from the onlyowner and employer. These permissions areonly referred to medieval trades that don’tharm even slightly the constitutive elements ofthe model which doesn’t work.ECONOMY AND ANTHROPOLOGYThe economy is fixed with economy. Andeconomics is a social science, so it is human. Ifeconomics is a human and social science it candisregard, blockade or manipulate theconstitutive elements of the human being.The human person is the subject and the end ofeconomics and the whole social cohabitation.The human person can be the subject ofeconomics only if he is able to manage his lifeand develop his social relations; if he enjoys hisfull capacities, liberties and rights. Thereforeevery attempt to update any economic, politicalor social model will inevitably fail if itdisregards, restrains or blockades thecapacities, liberties and rights of the potentialparticipants in these models.There is no economic development without civiland political liberties. There are no authenticcivil and political liberties without economicliberties and real opportunities.If there is economics without freedom there ishuman and material misery. Our experience of52 years and the failure of all of the totalitarianand vertical systems show this.On the other hand, every model with economicand political liberties without ethic and civicresponsibility, without legal regulations leads tochaos and crisis and these ones produceinjustice, inequality and global destabilization;the trajectory of all of the capitalist crisesreminds us about this periodically.Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize inEconomic Science in 1998. In theAnnouncement of the Prize it was said: “hecombines the economic tools with thephilosophical tools and he has restored theEdiciones <strong>Convivencia</strong>Pinar del Río. 201277
ethical dimension of the debate about themost vital economic problems”. (SwedenRoyal Academy). It also said: “his writingshave made the theory and the practice ofdevelopment evolve by showing that thequality of our lives should not be measuredby our wealth but by our freedom”. Kofi A.Annan, Secretary General of the UnitedNations has written about this subject deeplyand his assertions should be considered inCuba too:“Freedom is fundamental for the process ofdevelopment for two different reasons:1. Evaluation. The progress is to beevaluated mainly according to theincrease or not of the liberties of theindividuals.2. Efficiency. “Development dependstotally on the free agency of theindividuals”. (Sen Amartya,Desarrolloy Libertad 1999, p. 19.28.Introducción: El desarrollo comolibertad)Economy and freedom are indivisiblecomplements of the sameanthropological subject. This subjectcannot be submitted to economicmechanisms manipulated from abovewhich prevent or blockade the subject’senterprising capacities, his freedom as acitizen and his rights as a proprietor andgenerator of material and spiritual wealth.That’s why the synthesis of economy andfreedom favors the holistic humandevelopment.The expansion of freedom is thefundamental end of development as wellas its main means. Development is theelimination of some kinds of lack offreedom which leave the individuals a fewchoices and scarce opportunities toexercise their reasoned agency…Development demands the elimination ofthe main sources of freedom deprivation:poverty and tyranny, scarcity of economicopportunities and systematic socialdeprivation; the abandonment of publicservices that could exist and theintolerance or the excess of theintervention of repressive States”. (SenAmartya, Desarrollo y Libertad, 1999,Prólogo p. 16 e Introducción: El desarrollocomo libertad p. 18 y ss.)If the human being is not a departmentstore then no model can work by turningwork and freedom into barracks in a totaland strong-willed conflict. No economicmodel works or will work if there isantagonism between “being a part of” and“belonging to” the productive structures. Itdoesn’t’ work and there is no sanity if webelong to something we are not a part of.It’s against nature. It’s also an unnatural actto divide into stagnant demarcations thecapacity for business management and theindividual and cooperative property. Tohave economic capacity means to have aproperty, to have the right and the freedomto dispose of the means, the management,the produced wealth and the socialdistribution of the wealth and such thingsdon’t work if there is fear of theunappealableexpropriation,the confiscation or the intervention of theState.Fear and mistrust are inseparable; they havean impact on the economic and socialmechanisms. If there is uncertainty theinvestments decrease. Fear discourages theenterprising persons. Mistrust destroys theenterprises and the business. An economywithout at least a primary or essentialanthropological dimension, doesn’t work.Likewise economy without humandimension and social justice is not ethicallyacceptable.The world is not a paradise. One economicmodel works but it generates injustice. Theother economic model generates injusticebecause it doesn’t work. The one that worksbecause it respects freedom lacks socialresponsibility. The one that doesn’t worklacks everything because it cannot demandresponsibility if it doesn’t respect freedomand rights.THE CHALLENGES FOR A NEW MODEL INCUBAThe challenge is clear: to build a mode thatlifts all of the blockades and achieves a vitalEdiciones <strong>Convivencia</strong>Pinar del Río. 201278
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Conclusions from its Council. We th
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