FROM CUBA:
Distributed by CubaNet-Org.
By Ernesto Diaz Fernandez, special assignment for the Independent Press Bureau in Cuba. (BPIC).
HAVANA, (BPIC).- One of the significant traits of socialist phylosophy is its marked tendency towards dogmas, deceitfully hidden under the subtlety of language and reasonings, more appearance than reality. Following this underhanded attitude, socialist thought creates an entire framework of falsehood and contradiction destined to create confusion and resentment based on, the (fortunately) obsolete Marxist-Leninist theories, which fragment society into classes, supposedly antagonistic, and therefore irreconciliable.
Socialist ideology creates enemies in all places and conceives society as a bloody battlefield in which arguments are to be settled through bullets. This culture of violence establishes a culture of hatred. It is as if socialism would perish in the presence of reason, reflection, and dialogue.
Cuba is tangible proof of this statement. In our society, you find the frightening phenomenom of mutual distrust in the realm of social relations. Divisions within the family and the physical discomfort, the lack of the most basic of human needs, the inability of expressing freely your political thoughts, faced with the terror of the most cruel and degrading represion. The absence of (moral) values and the sad alternative of exile or silent resignation, when faced with total economic and social disaster.
The struggle for survival in Cuba has sought to turn Cubans into gladiators which they have attempted to use, without success, to promote a bankrupt ideal. Frustration is conveyed through a painful succession of repeated slogans or unreachable promises. Today the drought, tomorrow the embargo, the next day, downpours. The responsibility always lies in the North or with nature, in that or in the weather.
If we examine the social and political structures in the totalitarian system in effect in Cuba, we would find the source of all the problems. Of the real (problems), the ones that grow and multiply as if they were malignant cells consuming the social body. The Cuban state is sick. It ails from isolation symdrome and loneliness. Ideas are stagnant, intelligence languishes, and servile attitude turn the senses dormant and places limits on reflection.
Cuba belongs to all, Cuba is not a party or an ideology. Cuba is a nation and it is up to (us) all to find a solution and implement it. If we truly want to preserve the nation and save the motherland, with all and for the good of all, let us look within ourselves, let us look not for the blame but rather for the shared responsibility to finally take the Republic out of the morass in which it is now.