The book El pensamiento estrategico de Fidel Castro Ruz: valor y vigencia was presented this Friday in Federico Engels printing house, in Havana. A collection of articles written by several authors about the foreseen and strategic leadership and the political mastery of Commander in Chief in different areas and issues related to his Man of State’s management along 50 years is included in the title.

The volume, compiled by Rafael Hidalgo Fernández and published by Editoria Historia from the Institute of Cuban History gathers authors such as Jose Luis Rodríguez, Osvaldo Martínez Martínez, Isabel Allende Karam, Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, René González Barrios, Elier Ramírez Cañedo, Pedro Pablo Rodríguez López, Olga Fernández Ríos, Elvis Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez, Ángel Edil Jiménez González, Ramón Pichs Madruga, Avelino Suárez Rodríguez, Julio Torres Martínez, Faustino Covarrubia Gómez, José A. Pérez García, Luis Suarez Salazar and Hidalgo Fernández himself.

“When we refer to a strategic thinking, we are just referring to a logic, a provisory way of thinking from present to future. We do not talk about the leader but the statistic men who always was capable of foreseeing actions , following military terminology, tactical thinking to reach a strategic reality”, said Yoel Cordoví Nuñez, president of the Institute of Cuban History and also one of the responsible of this book’s presentation.

In this collection of articles’ preface, compiler claims that “Cuban Revolution and prior fights between 1952 and 1958 will never be fully explained without an integral comprehension of Fidel’s provisory and strategic thinking”.

About the gathering process, Rafael Hidalgo commented that “the book was a piece of work that flew easily. Launching the announcement was enough for a group of the Academy’s most important people with a huge political trajectory who provided their experiences and ideas in regard with this topic”.

“To me it was a practical exercise of summing up knowledge, complementation, the lack of rigid positions, a collective search for the most righteous and accurate word, the seek for the main concept to be highlighted in order to clearly express the defended ideas we were eager to express and for them to be practically understood”.

To Cordoví, “El pensamiento… is a must be known text, a consult text, a work to be studied by every Cuban in the island and I would add that it would be consulted by any person with a humanist conception, just because of its content”.

The thing is not to learn by heart every word said by our Commander In Chief in a certain time, but to understand his logical thinking, because scenarios are constantly changing, but the essence in the way we visualize an independent Cuba, with sovereignty, social justice are just invariable, concluded President of the Institute of Cuban History.

Economist and former Economy and Planning Minister, José Luis Rodríguez, pointed out the critical vision Fidel had when examined experiences of other socialist countries during the first years of the Revolution.

To Rodríguez, Commander in Chief’s vision in regard with the construction of Socialism and its developing was very flexible and anti-hegemonic one. The economist also highlighted, the Fidel’s forwarding role in fields such as biotechnology and information technologies, and America Latina’s integration.

René González, Head of Fidel Castro’s Center, made a historical summing up of solidarity displayed along the independence war. The historian restated coincidences in Cespedes, Martí and Fidel’s thinking.

Juan Rodríguez Cabrera (president of the Instituto Cubano del Libro), Abel Prieto Jiménez (president of Casa de las Américas and former Minister of Culture) also attended to the presentation. There were some of the authors who worked in the text El pensamiento…, accompanied with guest and workers for the printing house.  

Source: Cubadebate