Fidel Castro Ruz, the undisputed leader of the iconic Cuban Revolution, will turn 100 on August 13th. Consequently, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has proposed 2026 as the centennial year of the Commander-in-Chief.
US imperialism has attempted (through economic strangulation, coups, assassinations, genocide, invasions, among other savage procedures typical of the Monroe Doctrine and the Big Stick policy) to destroy all experiences that counteract the perverse logic of the expanded reproduction of capital in order to demonstrate to the world that socialism and communism are synonymous with poverty, collective and personal failure.
The technological and military might of the United States has been at the service of this objective through its powerful ideological arms, which manifest themselves in cognitive warfare, a long-standing tactic. Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser have instructed us on this matter in their important works and political practice.
Consequently, Commander Castro's legacy is not only political but also ethical and moral. In other words, he bequeathed to humanity values that challenge the fierce individualism that underpins the rationality of the capitalist system, comprised largely of sociopaths and psychopaths.
On the contrary, Castro's legacy is one of humanity, poetry, and the hope of recreating a sensitive and fraternal world. In Venezuela, exemplary figures such as Salvador de la Plaza, Carmen Clemente Travieso, and Hugo Chávez extolled the greatness of a) the attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, b) the 26th of July Movement, and c) the guerrilla war of dignity in the Sierra Maestra as the correct path for all to follow, with the ultimate intention that the triumph of January 1, 1959, be repeated, time and again, throughout our America.
For all these reasons, in the Homeland of Bolívar, institutional support is of utmost urgency, in its proper terms, to consolidate the reconstruction of the memory of the revolutionary left as a historical and political testament left by Pío Tamayo, Salvador de la Plaza, Gustavo Machado, the guerrilla struggle of the 60s, 80s and 90s of the 20th century, etc., with the certainty of securing the definitive independence to which the 4F of 1992 was aspired.
