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FdAA
17th March 2003, 15:49
Hey all!

Im a little bit stuck on what Che Guevara meant in his Letter Man and Socialism in Cuba when he kept talking about educating the people, and education is what will break alienation. What kind of education? Hows it taught? Also what did he mean when he said this:

It is still necessary to accentuate his conscious, individual and collective, participation in all the mechanism of direction and production and associate it with the idea of the need for technical and ideological education, so that the individual will realize that these processes are closely interdependent and their advances are parallel. He will thus achieve total awareness of his social being, which is equivalent to his full realization as a human being, having broken the chains of alienation.

Thanks alot guys, appreciate the help in understanding.

KRAZYKILLA
18th March 2003, 00:52
Ay, lOS CHICHARONES!!!! Pinche!!! Now, Che was a Very educated man. Studied Freud, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Plato, Sartre, Skinner and virtually every philosopher. He also studied to soem extent some early Emmanuel Levinas, Aquinas and St. Augustine. He felt educational revolution was one way to equality. His educated background lead him too that.

YerbaMateJ
19th March 2003, 06:46
The Socialist Revolution that Che was building in Cuba had at it's core the idea that each individual become educated in a variety of things and skilled in a variety of areas so that he or she work not for just wages, but for the benefit of the mass. Man was no longer a commodity, but part of a collective building a stronger society. Che called this individual the "New Man." The alienation he referred to was the alienation that a capitalist system brings to the individual. In capitalism, every man is for himself and the dollar. He did believe that a human being would achieve a far superior satisfaction in working for his fellow man, rather than for green paper that will never really be enough.

Kapitan Andrey
19th March 2003, 07:32
I understood that as:" Cleaver and Intellegent man could choose: to be free man or to be a slave!!!"

And he is right!!!
Big part of Cuban people was high intellegent when Che and Fidel came to make them free!!!

What can we see in Bolivia that time...stupid guahiros!!!They was afraid of their government, they wasn't ready to be free...

Larissa
20th March 2003, 02:21
I suggest you read Man and Socialism, that will give you a tip on what he meant by educating people.