Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Fourth-generation warfare is a struggle for the symbolic capital of our peoples. The "ideologues" of American doctrine have recognized this for years. It was no coincidence that Allen Dulles said that, before the aircraft carriers, the symbols would arrive, sold as glamorous and heralds of eternal youth and unlimited happiness. "It is the way they have for the assaulted to receive them with open arms".
In this atrocious war to manipulate consciences, consensus is doubly important, because revolutions need it in their race for survival.
Of the practically unanimous consensus that emerged after the triumph of the Revolution, even Lester DeWitt Mallory acknowledged it in his infamous memorandum to President Eisenhower: "The majority of Cubans support Castro... the only foreseeable way to weaken his internal support is through disenchantment and dissatisfaction arising from economic malaise and material hardship."
That consensus, recognized even by our enemies, validated the need to change the country after the devastating 1950s. The leaders of the Revolution, led by Fidel, bolstered it, giving all the opportunities to popular participation.
Today, that desired state is more difficult. Society is increasingly plural. My generation, for example, did not live through those years of radical transformations, and is the target of a brutal offensive that seeks, precisely, to destroy the consensus we could have.
Socialism, as Fidel and Raúl demonstrated, and as the country's leadership does today, is built in the community, in the factories, in the schools, in the consciousness of the people. Building socialism today, as in the 1960s, requires consultation, approval, and the involvement of the people in every step of the process.
The current Cuba is much more heterogeneous and requires more dialogue, something that, from the system of public and revolutionary media, we have to favor even more, go to analysis, timely criticism, suggestion and questioning, sometimes uncomfortable and not necessarily welcome.
To seek consensus, Cuba increasingly needs debate, whether in the physical or virtual realm, the latter in which we leave so many empty spaces that, not infrequently, are occupied by hypercritics and extremists.
It is absurd not to take greater advantage of collective intelligence. The latest popular consultation processes demonstrate this, because this people have been educated in this and know how to do it.
Today, the socialist Revolution faces the challenge of being in tune with current codes and the social dynamics of the present, being an active part of a process that is obliged to constantly renew itself, to change whenever necessary, and that requires popular participation to avoid the risk of transformations being counterproductive and generating unnecessary rejection.
In this hybrid war in and for the minds of our people, defending the symbolic capital and consensus that brought us here is one of the keys to ensuring that our future continues to be the socialist and democratic Revolution of the humble, with the humble, and for the humble. (Source: Granma) (Photo: Internet)
