File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-23.140, message 15


Date: 21 Apr 97 22:53:02 EDT
From: jonathan flanders <72763.2240-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: M-I: LatAm Marxism


>>What's good to read on Marxism in Latin America? Are there any 
specifically Cuban versions of Marxism worth studying?<< Doug H

Jon Flanders:

  A short answer, anything by Fidel Castro. I open his speech "Against
Bureaucracy and Sectarianism" at random and see this passage.

>>Certainly this problem did not arise from the danger that the prime minister
of the revolutionary government would allow himself to be seduced by the cult of
personality......But for the benefit of those through whose minds there might
pass the thought that we could even remotely be suspect of having such
inclinations, it is good to recall certain deeds, certain deeds as evidenced by
the fact that we waged a war, we led it, we won it, and there are no general's
stars on our shoulders and no medals hang from our chests. And the first law
that we proposed when we assumed governmental power prohibited the erection of
statues--these problems related to the cult of personality were not discussed as
much as they are now--but our of deep conviction we proposed prohibiting the
erection of statues of living persons, naming streets after living persons and,
what is more, that the placing of our portraits in government offices be
prohibited by law. This we did from deep conviction, from deep revolutionary
conviction. Was this demagogy? No. We acted this way from profound revolutionary
conviction.<< March 26, 1962
Fidel Castro speeches Vol 2, Pathfinder Press


Jon Flanders, using OzWin 2.12.1



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