“Long live the Cuban revolution! Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
Context: We admire the achievements of the Cuban revolution in the sphere of social welfare. We note the transformation from a country of imposed backwardness to universal literacy. We acknowledge your advances in the fields of health, education, and science.
“Long live the Cuban revolution! Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
“The greatest threat of the Cuban revolution is its own example, its revolutionary ideas”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Tactics and Strategy of the Latin American Revolution (1962)
Context: The most submissive countries and consequently, the most cynical, talk about the threat of Cuban subversion, and they are right. The greatest threat of the Cuban revolution is its own example, its revolutionary ideas, the fact that the government has been able to increase the combativity of the people, led by a leader of world stature, to heights seldom equaled in history. Here is the electrifying example of a people prepared to suffer nuclear immolation so that its ashes may serve as a foundation for new societies. When an agreement was reached by which the atomic missiles were removed, without asking our people, we were not relieved or thankful for the truce; instead we denounced the move with our own voice. We have demonstrated our firm stand, our own position, our decision to fight, even if alone, against all dangers and against the atomic menace of Yankee imperialism.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
As quoted in Men in Motion, Henry J. Taylor, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York: NY, (1944) p. 59. Also quoted in As We Go Marching, John T. Flynn, New York: NY, Free Life Edition (1973) p. 154, first published 1944 https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/As%20We%20Go%20Marching_2.pdf <br class="br">Other remarks
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries http://books.google.com/books?id=sCK8AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=&f=false (1971), p. 60.
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Notes on the Cuban Revolution (1960)
Context: The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he himself left science to shoulder his revolutionary rifle. And it takes him up at that point, not in a revisionist spirit, of struggling against that which follows Marx, of reviving "pure" Marx, but simply because up to that point Marx, the scientist, placed himself outside of the history he studied and predicted. From then on Marx, the revolutionary, could fight within history.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959), p. 111
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
As quoted in I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Vol. 2 , Random House, Inc. (2001) p. 317. Goebbels’ “Our Socialism” editorial was written on April 30, 1944.
1940s
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
As quoted in "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike" in The New York Times (October 23, 1992)
“This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.”
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929) British politician
Letter to the The Times attacking the "People's Budget" (22 June 1909), p. 8.