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8
Che Guevara, Cuba and the road to
socialism
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"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.
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