Science-based truth in Cuba
Cuban Marxists reject the notion of a “post-truth” era
In my last commentary, I reviewed the December 15, 2022 panel of the Annual Scientific Day, sponsored by the Julio Antonio Mella Center for Marxist Studies. The event commemorated the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Engels and the 130th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Gramsci. (See “Marxism today as seen from Cuba: A continually developing revolutionary science rooted in practice,” December 20, 2022). In today’s commentary, I review the panel of December 16, in which the necessity of the scientific quest for truth, standing against the post-modern assumption that we are in a “post-truth” era, emerged as a theme.
The December 16 panelists are professors at the Ñico López School of Higher Education of the Communist Party of Cuba. López was co-founder of the first Communist Party of Cuba. The students at the school are members of the Communist Party of Cuba.