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him to assemble a symposium in which a group of outstanding Cuban
thinkers from different eras -- Aurelio Alonso, Jes=C3=BAs Arboleya, Juan
Vald=C3=A9s Paz, Luis Su=C3=A1rez Salazar, Fernando Rojas and Julio Antonio
Fern=C3=A1ndez=E2=80=94contributed enlightened and, at times, diverging ana=
lyses
about Fidel's approach, the dangers that threaten the revolution and
the necessary changes to exorcise them. Later, Roberto Fern=C3=A1ndez
Retamar, Alfredo Guevara, Graziela Pogolotti and Ana Cairo developed
valuable reflections about history, socialism and culture, the
ideological struggle in the intellectual sphere both within and
outside of the country, the cancer of dogmatism and the permanence of
ethics and truth as inseparable elements in the politics of the Cuban
revolution.

The account of Baptist pastor Ra=C3=BAl Su=C3=A1rez shows how the prophetic
testimony of an inspired, evangelical believer is inserted naturally
into the perspective of a more radical Cuban socialism, and in the
formation of the Guevarist "new man." Interviews with sociologist
Mayra Espina, educator Esther P=C3=A9rez and the young journalist Milena
Recio emphasize the vital need to open doors to the exhilarating
diversity of today's Cuba to replace the homogeneity that in other
times was explicable and even justified. It is the discovery of the
break and continuity in the future of the revolution, a context that
substantially differentiates the Cuban debate from recent liquidating
experiences socialism has gone though.

Fernando Mart=C3=ADnez Heredia=E2=80=94perhaps the deepest of the thinkers =
to come
after 1959=E2=80=94 contributes an overall evaluation of the beneficial exc=
ess
of the island's project and the intellectual adventure of developing
an indigenous Marxism. The common denominator in the pieces is the
determinate role of consciousness and will to struggle for the
socialist transition, the need of systematizing the debate and
"socializing the agenda of change" in a society more and more democratic.

Although it is not proposed to be, nor is, representative of the
entire range of Cuban thought, En el borde=E2=80=A6 does find some of the
fundamental concepts in the current debate, exponentially expanded
with Ra=C3=BAl Castro's call: unyielding adherence to social justice and
ethics; support of the communist and international ideal; and
nonconformity and permanent renewal as conditions in the continuity of
the socialist revolution in Cuba.

Translated by Dana Lubow, March 15, 2008
Edited by Robert Sandels

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