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...like the relationship with the church, and small, like details of a financial transaction with a foreign investor. No matter what subject comes up for private discussion, Fidel soon turns it to preservation of the revolution. Aware than many in the country no longer believe in the orthodoxies of Marxism, he has cleverly redefined the revolution into a code for Cuban sovereignty, national identity and social justice that all Cubans can still share."His passion is so intense for the destiny of the country," says Guevara, "that you cannot ever get away from...
...nonconformity and a search for new ideas were infecting the populace. Little by little, people were going back to church. So he spent 23 hours talking to a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto. The subsequent book, Fidel and Religion, became a national best seller. Here was the apostle of Marxism expounding on his Catholic upbringing and attitudes toward religion. He recalled his devout mother and his rigorous parochial education. He had been baptized and was taught biblical history and Catholic catechism. At his upper-class Jesuit high school he absorbed the determination and discipline of these militant teachers who prophesied...
...result of my experience, analysis and sentiments." Nevertheless, the rebel wore a small cross on his guerrilla garb in the early days of the revolution. In the book, he astonished Cubans with the extent of his religious knowledge and the flattering comparisons he drew between Christianity and Marxism. "Karl Marx," he said, "would have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount." Christians, he added, had been excluded from Cuba's government not for ideological reasons but for historical mistakes in supporting the prerevolution status quo. Suddenly the subject of religion was no longer taboo...
...side of the trenches, the humanities and social sciences from the other. In reality, however, Holub has no desire to accuse the humanities of some inherent lack of rigor. Rather, his goal is to expose the dangers of ideology masquerading as knowledge, whether it takes the form of Marxism-Leninism or politically correct dogma...
...years from now, Buddhism as a fad will be discarded in the American popular imagination, as were Marxism and other revolutionary countercultural movements. But serious Buddhists will still be in the world, as they have been, working ceaselessly (and discreetly) for the benefit of all. DIMITRI B. BAKHROUSHIN New York City...