Reflections
by Comrade Fidel
MAKING
NO CONCESSIONS TO THE ENEMY’S IDEOLOGY
I have decided to write this
reflection after listening to a public comment disseminated by one of the media
of the Revolution, which I will not specifically mention.
We must be very careful about
the assertions we make, in order not to play into our enemy’s ideology.
We can not blame the special
period for the system that the imperialism has imposed on the world; it was not
the one that invented the climate change, or a civilization that depends on the
consumption of hydrocarbons, where every individual member of a family moves in
automobiles which travel almost empty, or the nefarious idea of turning
foodstuffs into fuel. It did not invent the
world wars for the distribution of the planet, the military bases, the nuclear and radio-electronic weapons, the satellites
that spy on everything and hit the target with lethal beams, the guided
missiles, or the submarines that make their shots from a distance of one
thousand meters under the sea. That is science and technology to the service of
death and destruction.
It did not invent political
geography or determined how much land each nation should own, which resulted
from other historical factors.
Everything that is said or asserted should be carefully meditated to
avoid making shameful concessions. The
nature and psyche
of human beings should
be analyzed; their time for action is very brief, is just a fraction of a
second in the history of the human species.
To understand this is a great remedy against all vanities.
The special period was the inevitable consequence of
the demise of the
How difficult it is to be brief in the battle of
ideas!
Fidel Castro Ruz