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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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