Today in Latin American Historia : Dia de la Revolucion en Cuba
1 Jan 2011
On January 1st 1959, U.S. backed dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista fled the island for the Dominican Republic following the Battle of Santa Clara. This ushered in the communist government, led by Fidel Castro, that remains in power today.
While we can and should debate and question the Cuban revolution, as we should all revolutions, including the ones we actively participate in,
a quote from Grace Lee Boggs, from a conversation at the U.S. Social Forum last year, that I recently read is echoing within as I think about the Cuban revolution, U.S. interventions in Latin America, and the idea of democracy. Boggs was talking specifically about Chinese democracy but it’s applicable here as well.
“What is important is not our critique if the Chinese vertical democracy, but the understanding that democracy is now a concept in contention and that we are all participants in creating what we think should be the democracy of the future”
Image Via / Wikipedia
Grace Lee Boggs Quote Via / A Conversation Grace Lee Boggs, Immanuel Wallerstein, U.S. Social Forum 2010
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4 Responses to Today in Latin American Historia : Dia de la Revolucion en Cuba
Javier
January 1st, 2011 at 11:47 am
The first sentence in your second paragraph is not a complete sentence and I believe it’s likely that you misquoted as it doesn’t make sense. Maybe you can just change the if to of.
If you’re going to to make political commentary on VivirLatino, at least use proper sentence structure.
Maegan La Mala
January 1st, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Happy New year to you too Javier.
Sometimes what my brain wants to say and what I type do not always match and I notoriously don’t edit myself very well. Thank you for pointing out my grammatical failure. Hopefully the edit will be pleasing.
zackboston
January 1st, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Grace Lee Boggs is one of the great public intellectuals of our time and I heartily agree that we need to imagine new approaches to democracy. I use “imagination” purposefully. For, as chicana theorist Chela Sandoval says, one of the great tasks of the present is to decolonize our imaginations. The imagination is very important because to paraphrase Toni Morrison from Beloved. . . the grace we can have is the grace we can imagine; if we cannot imagine it, we cannot have it.
Maegan La Mala
January 1st, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Truth Zack.. thank you and I agree especially re: Grace Lee Boggs. I have had the honor of hearing her/seeing her speak on a few of the occasions I have been to Detroit.