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Recent Popular bursts in various parts of the world have highlighted the importance of symbolic dispute. They have demolished monuments of the colonial order, raised the flags of the original peoples, renowned streets and squares. They have done small acts of historical justice. In Mexico, the struggles of women, workers, relatives of victims of violence and processes of popular resistances have built, from the immediate vicinity of Chapultepec Castle to the capital Zócalo, interventions and antimony that, from below already countercurrent of the officiality, denounces state crimes that occurred in the last 60 years.
In the opposite sense of these processes, a frivolous influencer Avenue in an ultra -right official opted out of his marginality withdrawing a statue of Fidel Castro and Ernest Che Guevara, who recalled the first encounter of these characters in Mexico City. It is an opposite act to the aforementioned rebellions, while it was not a movement that removed them, but employees of the Mayor’s Office; It was not done from the force that gives the legitimacy of the protest, but of the abuse of power conferred to authority; A monument was not attacked by the official state of the State, but to two figures that popular memory keep Che They rose at the time, and today also the popular rebellions.
Memory is always in dispute. Today the senses and contents of the past and the future are alive. The system forces have concentrated much of their energies in manipulating the history of these revolutionaries, trying to submit them to oblivion and misrepresenting them. Thus, with a falsified story, which is based on the fact that today’s world is the only possible and desirable one, it is difficult for the oppressed to meet the true image of Fidel and the Cheappropriate them and act accordingly.
Fidel and Che – So, without surnames, because those who keep them alive feel them so familiar that they do not need to use any appellation – represent the personification of the movement that managed to articulate the protest and the most radical proposal in Latin America in the twentieth century: the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Fidel and Che They represent the possibility that the challenge to the established order of simple pose or individual act to a massive, organized movement and with a proposal of its own project and power. They represent the possibility that human beings subvert the conditions of oppression in which they have been born and that, outside the canons of established politics, they raise an original, subversive and popular form of doing politics.
Approach Fidel’s non -misrepresented history and Che It is key to understanding the theoretical and practical contributions that Latin American socialism has built as the possibility of transcending capitalism in these lands.
When the West showed exhaustion regarding the possibilities of moving the crowds, they were Fidel and Che Those who achieved, from the Cuban revolution of which they were part, impact on the release movements of the entire Third World and envive the protest in the West. They were decisive to enliven the second wave of revolutions that marked the twentieth century.
At a time when social oppression is exacerbated and progressive governments claim to go beyond the possibilism in which the system has been encased, the rebellion is trying to be monopolized by the extreme right to, in an apparent antisystemic position, contribute to deepen the current conditions of oppression.
The immediate absence of anti -capitalist and subversive ideological referents is nothing but a product of operations against popular memory. It is vital for recent popular rebellions – which have demolished statues and built antimony – meet the past, enliven the memory that will be against the system’s countercurrent and dispute the symbols. In that fidel fight and Cheof flesh and bone, they will be among the most humble, to convert the rejection of the system into a project of a new social order.
The most important rescue of Fidel and Che It will not come from the relocation of the statues, although we must continue to demand their reinstatement, but to bring to the public scene what is in them that bothers the privileged, racist, classist and fascists of yesterday and today, who fear so much that Fidel and Che Millions are done again.
* Philosopher
