Capitalism in Crisis - Globalization and World Politics Today
Author Fidel Castro
Collection of Castro's speeches from 1990s. Includes his thoughts on the danger of a stock market collapse, US cultural hegemony, the need to democratise the UN, the US 'war on drugs', the catastrophe of capitalist reform in the former USSR, how Cuba has survived the crisis of the 1990s and the state of US-Cuba relations.
Publisher: Ocean Press | ISBN no: 1-876175-18-4 | Year: 2000
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Many books have been written on the subject of globalisation. Numerous conferences have debated its meaning and direction. Voices from the Third World have been allowed very little space in this debate. Among the strongest of these voices – and it must be stated, among the most radical – has been Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
In this volume Castro adds his voice to the mounting international chorus against neo-liberalism and the globalisation of privilege and exploitation. Castro denounces a system which colonised, enslaved and plundered the peoples of the globe for centuries and which continues to do so today in the name of “free market economics”.
Fidel bluntly describes the world today as “one giant casino” and asks: “Why not seek other formulas and admit that humankind is able to organise its life and its destiny in a more rational and humane manner?” The Cuban leader asks what kind of globalisation is required:
It cannot but be supportive, socialist, communist or whatever you want to call it. Does nature, and the human species with it, have much time left to survive in the absence of such change? Very little time. Who will be the builders of that new world? The men and women who inhabit our planet. What will be their basic weapons? Ideas will be, and consciousness. Who will sow them, cultivate them and make them invincible? You will. Is it a utopia, just one more dream among so many others? No, because it is objectively inevitable and there is no alternative to it. It has been dreamed of before, only perhaps too early. As the most visionary of the sons of this island, José Martí, said: “Today’s dreams will be tomorrow’s realities”
If there is a singular theme that emerges from this book it is the role of ideas. Castro thrives in the intellectual and moral challenge that now faces not only the oppressed of the world in seeking solutions that will benefit the immense majority, but also the forces for social change. This volume reflects his never-ceasing drive to “sow and cultivate” these ideas of hope and struggle, providing them with a content that creates their invincibility. He lives and breathes this belief in the dreams of today and the realities of tomorrow.
