“Once and for all, they crushed the absurd idea that the suffering endured, and the blood and tears spilled throughout almost a hundred years of struggle for independence and justice against Spanish colonialism and its slavery-based model of exploitation, and later against imperialist domination and the corrupt and bloody governments imposed on Cuba by the United States, were to serve for the rebuilding of a neocolonialist, capitalist and bourgeois society.We did it at the exact and precise moment in history, not a minute before and not a minute later, and we were daring enough to attempt i
“It is essential that we believe in work consciousness. Because capitalism created the consciousness of the exploitation of work, not in the consciousness of the need to work for the well-being of society.”
I fully agree with Karl Marx, who said that when the capitalist system of production and distribution no longer exists, and the exploitation of man-by-man disappears along with it, this would mark the end of the prehistory of the human race. He based his reasoning on the dialectical development of the history of our species.
"In a brief 15-minute speech, the president of the United States made some assertions that, had they come from the mouths of any of his adversaries, they would have been described as atrocious and cynical slanders against the economic system of his country which he named “democratic capitalism”. "
"In capitalist society a reduced number of specialists who dealt with health and life would be turned into gods. In these, as among senior level educators and other professionals who require large doses of knowledge, there is no other alternative but to thoroughly cultivate the revolutionary spirit.”
“The only way in which peoples today could live their lives in a community with social justice and decorum, which are the antithesis of capitalism and the principles that govern that hateful and unjust system, is through struggle. In the tough battle to achieve those goals, the worst enemy would be the human being's instinctive egoism.”
“…Solidarity among individuals is inseparable from the solidarity among peoples, just as capitalist egoism is inseparable from individualism, nationalism, imperialist ambitions and the wars of aggression and depredation.”
“It is worthwhile indicating that the main responsibility for the brutal destruction of the environment lies with the consumer societies. They are the offspring of the old colonial metropolises and of imperialist policies that also begot the poverty and backwardness which are today the scourge of the overwhelming majority of humanity.”
“Above the lies and slander, above the repression and force, of propaganda and imperialist crimes, the Cuban workers and peasants have buried capitalist society for good, as a veritable corpse that can never again come back to life.”
“Unequal exchange and the worst economic relations are imposed by the capitalist powers upon a large part of the peoples of the world. These realities impose upon our revolutionary peoples the necessity and the duty to fight united in order to accelerate the end of such inhuman circumstances that typify what Karl Marx described as the pre-history of human society.”