1963
The worker’s mission
The situation in Cuba was complex – investments were increasing but production was falling. The negative effects of the US blockade intensified and it became difficult to direct foreign trade towards socialist countries.
Che encouraged workers. “The vanguard worker has a fundamental mission to accomplish – to set an example, to transform into a venerable working hero […]”
He fought bureaucratism, “caused by the original sins of the old administrative systems […] evil […] had developed greatly […] but some factors destroyed its underlying causes […] and every worker, according to his or her level, has transformed into a soldier of the economy, prepared to deal with any problem.”
Building the party
Regarding the party, he stated that, “The people who are part of the new Party must intimately perceive all the new truths inside them, and must feel them naturally, so that what normal people perceive as a sacrifice is for them simply an everyday action […].” The United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC) was created in May. On 30th May Che wrote the introduction to the book The Marxist-Leninist Party. It was published by the National Directorate of the United Party of the Socialist Revolution in Cuba. Che stressed his human vision. “A Marxist must be the best, the most honest, the most complete of human beings but always, above all else, he must be human.”
Birth of his daughter Celia
On 14th June, in the new house in Calle 47 in the Nuevo Vedado district, his daughter Celia was born. He affectionately referred to her as “tercerota”.
The importance of planning
Guevara was the first Cuban leader to visit Algeria. On 3rd July he was welcomed at the airport by the Prime Minister, Ahmed Ben Bella, one of the great admirers of the Cuban revolution.
On 16th July Che gave a speech at the Seminar on Planning in Algiers.
“Planning, in the Marxist-Leninist sense of the word, has an economic and political content. It is the way socialist society develops.”
On 25th July, L’Express, a French weekly magazine, published Jean Daniel’s interview with Che Guevara. “I am not interested in dry economic socialism,” he said. “We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of ‘individual interest’, and gain, from people’s psychological motivations.”
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