Manifestations of Humanism in Revolutionary Cuba

Che and the Principle of Universality

Bibliographic Data

ID4501558
AuthorsClive W Kronenberg (Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Cape Town, South Africa)), Clive Kronenberg (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume36
Issue2
Pages66-80
Publication date2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x09331953
OpenAlexW1971589977
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

The humanist dimension of revolutionary Cuban society owes much to the thinking and action of Che Guevara, a principal architect of the Cuban Revolution. Examination of Che's association with the humanist tradition of revolutionary thought and, in particular, the ideas of Martí and Marx reveals his resolute devotion to moral standards and human values (as promoted by José Martí) and a revolutionary "theoretical response" to defeating human alienation, oppression, exploitation, and inequality (as advanced by the Marxist tradition). Through his contributions, revolutionary Cuban society embraced a distinctively humanistic ethos despite the efforts of others to imbue it with a dogmatic, cold scholasticism. While some political doctrines have changed since his death, fundamental socialist tenets prevail in Cuba to this day

Alienation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethos · Humanism · Marxist philosophy · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Scholasticism · Social science · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Cuban History and Society · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Religious studies

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