The Future Slavery is an article written by José Martí (1853-1895), in 1884, where he analyzes the socialist theories of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) a philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the English Victorian era.
José Marti is known as the Apostle of Cuba’s Independence from Spain in the 19th century.
Marti describes the future slavery as the TREND TO SOCIALISM of current governments. –The excessive state action. –Rooms for the poor. –Nationalization of the land. The function.
And Marti wonders, how will not socialism come to be, nor how does it have to be a new slavery?
Martí thought that it should be applied in a way that barters the relief of the poor in favor of loafers.
For us Cubans, it seems incredible that two centuries ago, our Apostle of Independence was already interrogating the socialist theories of a prominent English liberal political theorist, as if he had the premonition that one day, two hundred and so many years later, Cuba It would be controlled by socialism/communism.
We do not speak for any other Cuban, but as far as we are concerned, we are worried about the way some of the candidates for the presidency of this our country now, present themselves as socialists, promising the world to voters, without even knowing the cost of their promises and even worse, promise that it will be paid with money from the rich.
The wealthy families that were able to escape took their fortune out of with them drowning Cuba and Venezuela in total misery.
If you really want to know what socialism is, ask any Cuban; there are thousands of them in this, so far, beautiful and prosperous country, and think twice before giving your vote to a bearer of bogus promises.
