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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Wealth is far from being within the reach of the masses simply through the process of appropriation.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The road is long and full of difficulties.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
To build communism it is necessary, simultaneous with the new material foundations, to build the new man and woman.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The individual under socialism, despite apparent standardization, is more complete.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Man still needs to undergo a complete spiritual rebirth in his attitude towards his work, freed from the direct pressure of his social environment, though linked to it by his new habits.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
What are needed are the development of an ideological-cultural mechanism which permits both free inquiry and the uprooting of the weeds which multiply so easily in the fertile soil of state subsidies.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values. Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Socialism is young and has made errors.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
In our zeal as revolutionists we try to move ahead as fast as possible, clearing the way, but knowing we must draw our sustenance from the mass and that it can advance more rapidly only if we inspire it by our example.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Our children must have, or lack, those things that the children of the ordinary citizen have or lack; our families should understand this and struggle for it to be that way.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
For some people, the principle of the caste system will remain in effect: The reward for the obedient is to be transported after death to some fabulous other world where, according to the old beliefs, good people are rewarded.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)