Santo Domingo, July 28 (Prensa Latina) “If socialism fails on its own, why should it be blocked?” Dominican journalist Julio Disla headlined his opinion piece today. Disla believes that what capitalism fears is the success of that model.
He asserted that if socialism is doomed to failure, as capitalist discourse claims, according to this logic, all it takes is for it to collapse under its own contradictions. But then, he continued, why must it be blocked, sanctioned, and stifled from outside to prevent its development?
He argued that every time a country attempts to build an alternative model to capitalism—socialist, progressive, popular—it is subjected to economic, diplomatic, and military siege.
“From the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Nicaragua, to Venezuela, Iran, and even China at certain times, attempts at economic and political autonomy have been met with blockades, sabotage, coups d’état, and hybrid wars.”
“It’s no coincidence. Capitalism doesn’t fear the failure of socialism. What it fears is its success,” he stated in his article published this Monday in the newspaper “Lucha,” run by the Dominican Communist Labor Party (PCT).
He considered that “what truly terrifies the global elites is not the collapse of socialism, but rather its success in offering viable and popular solutions to the problems that capitalism has failed to solve: poverty, inequality, healthcare, education, housing, national sovereignty.”
An alternative model that works—even if it’s difficult—represents a threat to the global neoliberal order. It would be living proof that there are alternatives, he asserted.
That’s why there are blockades, sabotage, and sanctions. That’s why Cuba has endured more than six decades of a criminal embargo (blockade), which prevents it from purchasing medical supplies, receiving international credit, or trading freely, Disla indicated.
That’s why Venezuela has been the target of more than 900 sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union, while Nicaragua, with its poverty reduction and universalization of social rights, “is systematically demonized in the Western media,” he noted.
For Disla, the goal is not to correct mistakes or punish human rights violations, as imperialism’s spokespeople hypocritically claim.
The objective, he argued, is to make the socialist experience uninhabitable, to prevent its maturation, to deprive it of oxygen and then say that it suffocated itself.
“It’s about manufacturing failure and then presenting it as inevitable. It’s a dirty game: causing a crisis and then using it as proof that the alternative system doesn’t work,” he said.
“If socialism doesn’t have access to global trade, if it can’t import machinery, if it can’t access credit or key technologies, how can it compete on a level playing field?” he noted.
According to the journalist, “What is being blocked is not just an economic model, but a historical possibility. What is being punished is not “failure,” but sovereignty.”
He maintained that if a people decide to organize their society differently—without exploitation, without profit, without speculation—they have every right to do so. “And if they fail, let them fail alone. But capitalism doesn’t allow that. Not out of charity. Not out of ‘defense of democracy.’ But out of fear,” he added.
He asserted that capitalism fears that the world’s majority will see that a more dignified life is possible without predatory banks, the IMF, media monopolies, and institutionalized poverty.
“Socialism doesn’t fail on its own. It’s brought down. It’s sabotaged. It’s besieged. And yet, it remains standing. Because it’s not just an economic doctrine, but a historical hope. And that hope—like a seed in parched soil—is reborn every time the people decide to fight for their future,” he asserted.