Remembering Fidel, Part Two
Fidel speaks to the world in the name of the colonized
I continue today with the second of a two-part commemoration of the sixth anniversary of the death of Fidel on November 25, 2016. Today I am reposting my commentary of August 17, 2021, which focuses on Fidel’s appeal to the world of behalf of the colonized peoples in the period 1979 to 1983, as the world powers turned to neoliberalism. See also Part One of this commemoration, which focuses on Fidel’s formation and his exceptional leadership of the Cuban Revolution.
Public discourse in the United States proceeds with unawareness of the colonial foundations of the world-system, and what is more, foreign policy debates in the United States are driven by the limited issue of U.S. geostrategic interests. In contrast, the discourse of Fidel was formulated from the vantage point of the colonized, and it includes a primary focus on the universal needs and aspirations of humanity in the development of relations among nations. For some U.S.…