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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

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Today, February 28, 2017 at 9:00 am, at what would have been the 65th birthday of Oswaldo Paya, there will be a plaque ceremony in his honor. The marble plaque will be hung on the facade of the house where he lived with his family, at the time of his death.
Oswaldo Paya, leader of the opposition to the communist regime was assassinated in an attack on July 22, 2012 in Cuba at the hands of the Cuban government's state security. Oswaldo was the founder of the Christian Liberation Movement and creator of the Varela Project, the only legal project that is the result of a massive and independent expression of the Cuban people in the last 58 years.
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Para difusión inmediata: 

Hoy 28 de febrero de 2017 en el que seria el cumpleaños 65 de Oswaldo Paya a las 9 am tiene lugar la ceremonia de colocación de una tarja en su honor. La tarja de mármol permanecerá colocada en la fachada de la que era su casa, donde vivía con su familia, en el momento de su muerte. 
Oswaldo Paya, lider de la oposición al regimen comunista fue asesinado en un atentado el 22 de julio  de 2012 en Cuba a manos de la seguridad de estado del gobierno cubano. Oswaldo es el fundador del Movimiento Cristiano Liberación y creador del Proyecto Varela único proyecto de ley fruto de una expresión masiva e independiente del pueblo cubano en los últimos 58 años. 
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Redistributive Injustice

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Commentary on Cuba's Future, U.S. Foreign Policy & Individual Freedoms - Issue 63
 


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The images of indignation were everywhere- street protests in Greece, Italy, Spain, and, of course, our own occupy Wall Street movement. The underlying rationale for the indignation seems to be some amorphous concept of social justice and demands for redistributive policies by a redistributionist state. Since principles of distributive justice guide the allocation of the benefits and burdens of economic activity, the subject is worth exploring beyond political platitudes and sound bites.
In the early 1970’s, Harvard University professors John Rawls and Robert Nozick rigorously broached the topic from opposite points of view. Rawls, one of the major thinkers in the North American tradition of liberal political philosophy published “A Theory of Justice” in which he attempts to reconcile freedom and distributive justice by offering an understanding of “justice as fairness.”

In his version of the social contract, parties would hypothetically choose mutually acceptable principles of justice.  Rawls arrives at this conclusion deploying an artificial thought device he calls the “original position” in which individuals agree on principles of justice from behind a “veil of ignorance” that blinds people to all facts about themselves.

 According to Rawls, ignorance of one’s assets (intelligence, abilities, and the like) would lead people to adopt a strategy that would maximize the prospects of the least well-off. He posits that we would all default to social and economic positions that maximize the prospects for the worst-off just in case we happen to find ourselves in that group.

Rawls then develops his “Second Principle of Justice” under which social and economic inequalities are to be rearranged in some pattern (such as equality) so that they are of the greatest benefits to the least-advantaged members of society. This argument holds that individuals do not morally deserve their inborn talents and thus are not entitled to all the benefits they could possibly receive from employing their skills.

Not so fast retorts fellow philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”   Rawls’ proposition is morally arbitrary; natural endowments of talents break no law and do not violate anyone’s rights. Patterned principles of distribution are incompatible with liberty. The state would have to continually intervene with our freedoms in order to preserve any distribution pattern. Nozick underscores the Kantian principle that individuals are ends and not merely means.

Moreover, Nozick argues that “distributive justice” is a prejudiced term. It implies that some force (Providence, government, the market system, etc.) used some erroneous criteria to distribute goods. In Rawls’ view what has been distributed by these mechanisms must now be redistributed using different criteria. Why?

If holdings are acquired using unjust means, clearly the individual or entity is not entitled to those holdings and a rectification of injustice in holdings is called for.  But if holdings are acquired justly, what exactly is the principle under which justly acquired holdings are to be redistributed? A historical concept of distributive justice holds that a distribution is just if that distribution came about by legitimate means.

To make his point, Nozick compares taxation of income with servitude. Imagine a person who works extra hours to earn cash in order to pursue happiness in some activity that requires cash (e.g., going to the theatre). Imagine another person who elects to use the extra time on leisure activities that do not require cash (e.g., watching the sunset). What is the difference, Nozick asks, between seizing the second person’s leisure and requiring some social work, which would clearly be forced labor, and taking the first person’s income?

Appropriating the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from that person and gives others a fractional property right in the person.  In both cases a partial ownership of our actions and labor is sought by others, negating our self-ownership.

Unquestionably, we all want to live in a just society, but does justice reside in a given predetermined distribution of holdings or in the underlying principles generating the distribution? Redistribution can only be accomplished by violating individual rights and any end-state desired distribution cannot be realized or maintained without continuous interference with our liberties.

Even if it were possible to achieve, for one instant, a desired distribution of holdings, such a distribution would immediately begin to break down by individuals choosing to save in different measures, or to exchange goods and services with each other. Continuous interference would be required to take from some person the holdings that others chose to transfer to them. Redistributive justice requires the appropriation of our actions by some Leviathan. Is this what we want for American society?

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This article was originally published in English in the PanAm Post and in Spanish in El Nuevo Herald.
 
José Azel, Ph.D.
José Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a 13 year-old political exile in what has been dubbed Operation Pedro Pan - the largest unaccompanied child refugee movement in the history of the Western Hemisphere.  

He is currently dedicated to the in-depth analyses of Cuba's economic, social and political state, with a keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba strategies as a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami and has published extensively on Cuba related topics.

In 2012 and 2015, Dr. Azel testified in the U.S. Congress on U.S.-Cuba Policy, and U.S. National Security.  He is a frequent speaker and commentator on these and related topics on local, national and international media.  He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in business administration and a Ph.D. in International Affairs from the University of Miami. 

Dr. Azel is author of Mañana in Cuba: The Legacy of Castroism and Transitional Challenges for Cuba, published in March 2010 and of Pedazos y Vacios, a collection of poems he wrote as a young exile in the 1960's.

José along with his wife Lily are avid skiers and adventure travelers.  In recent years they have climbed Grand Teton in Wyoming, trekked Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Machu Pichu in Peru.  They have also hiked in Tibet and in the Himalayas to Mt. Everest Base Camp.

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