Fidel Castro: Our Species Has
Never Before Faced as Serious a
Threat
Cuban President Fidel Castro
warned that human species has
never before faced as serious a
threat, owing to the combination
of society's political
underdevelopment and the fruits
of technology, which appears
limitless and whose capacity for
self-destruction is beyond
reason.
"Genocidal wars, climate change,
hunger, thirst, inequality are
everywhere we look," said the
Cuban Revolution leader by
responding to the Declaration
from the Young Communist
Leader's National Bureau, in
support of his Reflection and
Manifesto for the Cuban people
published on June 18.
"Human beings need to cling to a
hopeful prospect, to seek a
means of survival in science
itself, and it is only fair to
look for it and offer it to
them. There would be no room, in
that brighter future, for the
horrible injustices bred by
today's developed capitalist
system under a worldwide
dictatorship," stated Fidel
Castro.
Due to its importance, Prensa
Latina integrally reproduces
below the declaration, published
in this capital Sunday:
Response to the Message from the
Young Communists League
Dear comrades,
Reading your message filled me
with emotion. None of you had
been born when the Revolution
triumphed. The ideas that this
message beautifully express
sprang from history's deepest
furrow. Their roots are
sustained by every act of
sacrifice and heroism of an
admirable people, who was able
to overcome all obstacles. They
find fertile ground, too, in the
example and the values created
by other peoples.
What is a life bereft of ideas
worth? Marti once said that
"trenches of ideas are more
valuable than trenches of
stones". Are ideas born of a
man? Do they perish with him?
Ideas have come into being all
throughout the history of the
human species. They will exist
as long as our species does.
Never before has the latter
faced as serious a threat, owing
to the combination of society's
political underdevelopment and
the fruits of technology, which
appears limitless and whose
capacity for self-destruction is
beyond reason. Genocidal wars,
climate change, hunger, thirst,
inequality are everywhere we
look.
Human beings need to cling to a
hopeful prospect, to seek a
means of survival in science
itself, and it is only fair to
look for it and offer it to
them. There would be no room, in
that brighter future, for the
horrible injustices bred by
today's developed capitalist
system under a worldwide
dictatorship.
"To be or not to be", I believe
Shakespeare wrote in one of his
plays. That is the alternative
facing young people now. To
ignore this would be opting to
live in the most idyllic of
worlds but for a handful of
decades, which are less than few
seconds in the history of time.
If young people fail, everything
will fail. It is my deepest
conviction that young Cubans
will struggle to prevent this. I
have faith in you.
Fidel Castro Ruz
June 23, 2007 |
