[Marxism] Fidel Castro: Ever Onwards and Upwards

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Particularly notable, in this commentary, Fidel talks about the free
availability of guns to which so many people in the United States at
this time have access. With all of the mass killings recently, and?
particularly at educational institutions, he's really right to draw
public attention to the violence which is so endemic to the U.S.A.)
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Ever Onwards and Upwards. Reflections by Comrade Fidel. 

Secondary Education students met: their XI Congress was the occasion.
Listening to them, I felt wholesome pride and justifiable envy. What
a privilege at that fertile age! If today university education has
become massive, so too a more important activity is massive: the
battle of ideas before starting university.

It would appear that nature has determined human evolution to make us
capable, from a very early age, of having consciousness prevail over
instinct. My dear comrades of the Federation of Middle Education
Students: that will be your battle.

Today, the greatest effort of the decadent and unsustainable empire
is to deprive us of the right to knowledge and thinking. Meditate a
moment on the petty effort made by the ringleader of that empire to
prevent our people access to the Internet; Rosa Miriam, a young and
profound journalist, denounces this in an article, adding information
that The New York Times, in its article criticizing the deed, does
not even mention:

".OFAC (the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department
of the Treasury) black list shows 557 "accursed" enterprises in the
entire world and 3719 .com domains that have been blocked in the
Network without any previous notification to its owners... the United
States has blocked almost three times more sites than all those the
country has registered under the generic of our country...."

"This is new evidence that the United States not only controls the
access of its citizens to cyberspace, but that of all users of global
Internet."

She refers to the policy pursued by Bush during his term in office.
Even though her article was published in Juventud Rebelde, it is
worthwhile to repeat the above mentioned information.

What a response there was in the statements of the Middle Education
students! Is there anything like it in United States consumer
society? Unfortunately, distressing news comes to us from there about
teenage and young adult students coming in contact with lethal fire
arms which are freely on sale in a society where money and the
marketplace are charting the way. The United States administration is
supported by the National Rifle Association and the fear of culture,
but it cannot impede Cuban culture.

Forward, young Cuban students! Let us fight against egoism, vanity
and the sterile ambition for glory which are serpents devouring human
souls; let us be the bearers of ideas and conscience, ever onward and
upward, together with our glorious forefathers.
Fidel Castro Ruz

March 9, 2008

6:19 p.m.



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WALTER LIPPMANN, CubaNews
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"Cuba - Un Paraiso bajo el bloqueo"
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