New International 8

Che Guevara, Cuba and the road to socialism

New_Internatio_8.JPG Che Guevara

Carlos Rafael Rodríguez

Carlos Tablada

Jack Barnes 

Steve Clark

Mary-Alice Waters

Pathfinder, 1991, 204 pages

    "Man truly reaches his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by physical necessity to sell himself as a commodity."
                                                        ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA
                                                         Socialism and Man in Cuba
    "it is my deepest conviction that if we ignore Che's thought it will be difficult to achieve real socialism."
                                                         FIDEL CASTRO
                                                          October 8, 1987
    ERNESTO cite GUEVARA pioneered and defended economic policies in Cuba in the early 1960s aimed at organizing working people to answer in practice the single biggest question of world politics:
    How can we rid the world of capitalism-with its exploitation, wars, racism, oppression of women, dog-eat-dog individualism, and economic and social crises-and begin a transition toward a communist society free of these horrors?
    This special issue of New International publishes four articles that are part of a discussion, both in Cuba and worldwide, on the lasting importance and historical weight of Guevara's contributions to the political continuity of communism.
    Also included are two articles by Guevara from the early 1960s that have long been unavailable in English. They are printed here in new translations.