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<\/a><\/h4>\nKAGEMUSHA: ABRIL TAMBI\u00c9N ES MA\u00d1ANA.<\/h4>\nSeminario “Los muros del capital, las grietas de la izquierda”
\nCideci \/ Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas
\n12 de abril del 2017<\/h4>\n
\nCideci \/ Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas
\n12 de abril del 2017<\/h4>\n
[podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/rzchiapas\/supgaleanodos.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n
Hace unos meses, el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s me dijo una s\u00edntesis de lo que ahora les ha contado a ustedes con m\u00e1s extensi\u00f3n y sustento.<\/p>\n
Tal vez sin propon\u00e9rselo, hab\u00eda \u00e9l detectado una l\u00ednea de tensi\u00f3n entre el pasado y la tormenta que ya est\u00e1.<\/p>\n
Esa madrugada, despu\u00e9s de escuchar las historias que, en voz del SupMoy, contaron los m\u00e1s antiguos de nuestros compa\u00f1eros, regres\u00e9 a mi champa.\u00a0 De todas formas una lluvia, fuera de temporada, comenzaba a azotar el techo de l\u00e1mina y era ya imposible escuchar nada que no fuera la tormenta.<\/p>\n
Volv\u00ed a hurgar en el ba\u00fal que me encarg\u00f3 el SupMarcos porque me pareci\u00f3 haber visto un texto que algo podr\u00eda referir a lo que acababa de escuchar.<\/p>\n
Revisar esos escritos no es f\u00e1cil, cr\u00e9anme.\u00a0 La mayor\u00eda de los textos que se amontonan con desorden dentro del recipiente van del a\u00f1o 1983 al primero de enero de 1994, y, cuando menos hasta 1992, se ve que el Sup no s\u00f3lo no ten\u00eda computadora, tampoco una m\u00e1quina de escribir mec\u00e1nica.\u00a0 As\u00ed que los textos est\u00e1n manuscritos en hojas de todos los tama\u00f1os.\u00a0 La letra del finado distaba de ser legible de por s\u00ed, as\u00ed que agregue usted a eso la mella del tiempo en la monta\u00f1a, la humedad y las manchas y quemaduras de tabaco.<\/p>\n
Hay ah\u00ed de todo. \u00a0Por ejemplo, encontr\u00e9 el original manuscrito de las \u00f3rdenes operativas para las distintas unidades militares zapatistas la v\u00edspera del alzamiento.\u00a0 No s\u00f3lo vienen las plantillas de las unidades, tambi\u00e9n cada operaci\u00f3n detallada con una minuciosidad que devela una preparaci\u00f3n de a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
No son \u00e9sos los apuntes de un poeta extraviado en las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano, o de un contador de historias.\u00a0 Son escritos de un soldado.\u00a0 No, m\u00e1s bien de un mando militar.<\/p>\n
Pero s\u00ed, abundan y redundan tambi\u00e9n cuentos e historias, hay muy pocos poemas y contados son los an\u00e1lisis pol\u00edticos y econ\u00f3micos.<\/p>\n
Bueno, m\u00e1s que an\u00e1lisis, se trata de esquemas y temas como punteados, como si fueran a ser desarrollados luego, o completados, o corregidos.\u00a0 He identificado varios de ellos con algunos que fueron hechos p\u00fablicos luego, aunque ya pulidos.<\/p>\n
Pero no es eso lo que busco.\u00a0 Las historias que recab\u00f3 el SupMoy me recordaron que algo hab\u00eda, en este mont\u00f3n desordenado de papeles e ideas, sobre la genealog\u00eda de la lucha anticapitalista.<\/p>\n
Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1.\u00a0 \u00c9ste si es de despu\u00e9s del inicio de la guerra porque est\u00e1 impreso y la tipograf\u00eda es la de un procesador de textos.<\/p>\n
Por lo que dice, debe haber sido escrito hace unos 20 a\u00f1os, cuando los zapatistas hicieron p\u00fablicos algunos an\u00e1lisis m\u00e1s profundos sobre lo que acontec\u00eda y lo que preve\u00edan seguir\u00eda despu\u00e9s.\u00a0 Bueno, al menos las primeras l\u00edneas, porque algo parece que es de un per\u00edodo posterior.<\/p>\n
El texto tiene un t\u00edtulo desconcertante pero que se acomoda conforme se avanza en la lectura.\u00a0 Se llama \u201cAbril tambi\u00e9n es ma\u00f1ana\u201d\u00a0 Y le siguen lo que parecen puntos a desarrollar, aunque incompletos en ese momento.<\/p>\n
La mayor\u00eda de los planteamientos aparecieron ya desarrollados en textos que fueron hechos p\u00fablicos alrededor de los a\u00f1os 1996-1997, as\u00ed que no los aburrir\u00e9 de nuevo repiti\u00e9ndolos.\u00a0 Los principales han sido agrupados ahora en un libro llamado \u201cEscritos sobre la guerra y la econom\u00eda pol\u00edtica\u201d, elaborado por la editorial \u201cPensamiento Cr\u00edtico Ediciones\u201d.\u00a0 Si alguien le interesa conocer m\u00e1s sobre eso, este libro podr\u00eda servirle.\u00a0 O puede consultar tambi\u00e9n la p\u00e1gina electr\u00f3nica de Enlace Zapatista.<\/p>\n
La parte que me interesa mostrarles no aparece en ninguno de esos escritos p\u00fablicos y, aunque medianamente desarrollada en su redacci\u00f3n, se alcanzan a vislumbrar en ella una serie de reflexiones sobre la ciencia social, es decir, la econom\u00eda pol\u00edtica, as\u00ed como sobre el a\u00f1ejo y actual reto de la teor\u00eda y la pr\u00e1ctica.<\/p>\n
Les leo:<\/p>\n
.- Las etapas posibles del capitalismo.\u00a0 M\u00e1s que en una definici\u00f3n cient\u00edfica, el planteamiento de que el imperialismo era una fase superior del capitalismo, se convirti\u00f3 en un plan de acci\u00f3n para las luchas en todo el mundo.\u00a0 De ser \u201cuna fase superior\u201d, se concluy\u00f3 que el imperialismo era \u201cla \u00faltima fase\u201d del capitalismo.<\/p>\n
.- Sobre esa base se estableci\u00f3 una especie de divisi\u00f3n internacional no del trabajo sino de la lucha anticapitalista.\u00a0 En los llamados pa\u00edses del Tercer Mundo, que no contaban con una industria desarrollada y, por lo tanto, carec\u00edan de una clase obrera s\u00f3lida, la lucha por el socialismo deb\u00eda pasar por una lucha nacionalista, antiimperialista, y anticolonial, y s\u00f3lo as\u00ed podr\u00edan aspirar a ser \u201canticapitalistas\u201d.\u00a0 Se establece que la lucha contra el capitalismo y por el socialismo pasa necesariamente por la lucha por la liberaci\u00f3n nacional.\u00a0 Eso al menos en los llamados pa\u00edses del tercer mundo.\u00a0 Para poder transitar al socialismo, las naciones deb\u00edan librarse primero del yugo neocolonial, el impuesto por el imperialismo norteamericano en ese caso.\u00a0 No era posible la construcci\u00f3n del socialismo en un solo pa\u00eds, mucho menos si el pa\u00eds era uno subdesarrollado.\u00a0 La revoluci\u00f3n socialista o era mundial o no lo era.\u00a0 El an\u00e1lisis cient\u00edfico se convirti\u00f3 entonces en una especie de comando central de la revoluci\u00f3n mundial y se instal\u00f3 en la URSS.\u00a0 De ah\u00ed part\u00edan las estrategias y t\u00e1cticas para las luchas anticapitalistas en todo el mundo.\u00a0 Quien acataba las \u00f3rdenes, recib\u00eda el benepl\u00e1cito de la \u201cvanguardia\u201d mundial.\u00a0 Para quien no, para quien pretend\u00eda construir su propio camino, es decir, su propia lucha, hab\u00eda la condena, el ostracismo y la etiqueta de moda para descalificar.<\/p>\n
La ciencia de la historia, la econom\u00eda pol\u00edtica, dej\u00f3 de ser ciencia y abandon\u00f3 el an\u00e1lisis cient\u00edfico, supli\u00e9ndolo por la consigna.\u00a0 Si la realidad no coincid\u00eda con la visi\u00f3n del Comit\u00e9 Central, la realidad era catalogada como reaccionaria, peque\u00f1o burguesa, divisionista, revisionista, y muchos \u201cistas\u201d semejantes.\u00a0 El pensamiento cr\u00edtico pas\u00f3 del an\u00e1lisis a la justificaci\u00f3n,\u00a0 y los tropiezos y errores se cubrieron con la coartada del enfrentamiento con el imperialismo norteamericano.\u00a0 El simplismo de un mundo bipolar invadi\u00f3 a la ciencia social y, al igual que las fuerzas pol\u00edticas y los gobiernos, tom\u00f3 partido por uno de los dos grandes y \u00fanicos contendientes.\u00a0 La inteligencia fue derrotada y la mediocridad se instal\u00f3 c\u00f3modamente.<\/p>\n
.- Mediando el siglo XX, todos estaban contentos y tranquilos.\u00a0 El mal llamado \u201cbloque socialista\u201d se enfrascaba en lo que nosotros llamamos la tercera guerra mundial.\u00a0 En Asia, \u00c1frica y particularmente en Am\u00e9rica Latina, las luchas transcurr\u00edan sin mayor relevancia para esa guerra, la que importaba, y las organizaciones partidarias de la izquierda de entonces eran conminadas a dirigir sus esfuerzos principales al apoyo del Bloque Socialista.\u00a0 Todo intento de lucha deb\u00eda tener el visto bueno de los tanques, pensantes y no, que, en la Uni\u00f3n de Rep\u00fablicas Socialistas Sovi\u00e9ticas, redactaban manuales que, m\u00e1s que simplificar, amordazaron el desarrollo de la ciencia social.\u00a0 Como si fuera en las olimpiadas, en la ciencia social se compet\u00eda no por mejor entender lo que ocurr\u00eda y lo que vendr\u00eda, sino por m\u00e1s alto y m\u00e1s veces levantar la bandera propia, fuera la de las barras y las estrellas, fuera la de la hoz y el martillo.<\/p>\n
En el escenario mundial todo parec\u00eda previsible y sencillo\u2026 pero en eso lleg\u00f3 Fidel.\u00a0 Y \u201cla problema\u201d, como dicen los compas, es que no lleg\u00f3 solo, sino que tra\u00eda de la mano a un tal Camilo que en el apellido llevaba la definici\u00f3n; y, con ese tremendo par, llegaba tambi\u00e9n un argentino-m\u00e9dico-fot\u00f3grafo-asm\u00e1tico, sin nombre relevante en el \u00e1rbol geneal\u00f3gico de la revoluci\u00f3n mundial y sin cargo alguno en ninguna estructura.\u00a0 Apenas unos meses despu\u00e9s el planeta entero lo conocer\u00eda con s\u00f3lo tres letras: Che<\/em>.<\/p>\n Luego pas\u00f3 lo que pas\u00f3, y la luz que ilumin\u00f3 el Caribe en esos primeros a\u00f1os de la d\u00e9cada de los 60\u00b4s se convirti\u00f3, sin propon\u00e9rselo, en un virus que contamin\u00f3 el continente.\u00a0 Despu\u00e9s de un largo calendario de derrotas en ese dolor llamado Latinoam\u00e9rica, un pueblo entero se organizaba y cambiaba de destino y extend\u00eda su nombre.<\/p>\n Desde la fracasada invasi\u00f3n mercenaria con patrocinio norteamericano, Cuba se llam\u00f3 Fidel y Fidel Castro tuvo a \u201cCuba\u201d como apellido de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda, de lucha.<\/p>\n El pa\u00eds m\u00e1s peque\u00f1o, el m\u00e1s despreciado, el m\u00e1s humillado, se levantaba y, con su acci\u00f3n organizada, cambiaba la geograf\u00eda mundial.<\/p>\n El estadista que el pueblo cubano puso al frente, en unos cuantos a\u00f1os pr\u00e1cticamente borr\u00f3 a los dem\u00e1s \u201cl\u00edderes mundiales\u201d y, como debe de ser, en torno a su figura se convocaron los extremos: los pocos para adular, los m\u00e1s para atacar.<\/p>\n S\u00f3lo unos cuantos miraron y aprendieron que algo nuevo hab\u00eda surgido y que la revoluci\u00f3n cubana no s\u00f3lo hab\u00eda roto el dominio que sobre la Am\u00e9rica entera impon\u00eda el imperio de las barras y la estrellas, el \u201cnorte revuelto y brutal\u201d.<\/p>\n Tambi\u00e9n hab\u00eda hecho pedazos la ya entonces acartonada teor\u00eda social que era pastoreada por los comisarios que, en todo el espectro pol\u00edtico, son la constante y nunca la excepci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Todav\u00eda, casi 60 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, no falta alg\u00fan viejo comisario que, \u201cheroicamente\u201d atrincherado en la academia y ahora con las redes sociales como arma, pretende dictarle al pueblo de Cuba lo que debe o no hacer y deshacer.<\/p>\n Ajeno a las masturbaciones te\u00f3ricas de la tibia academia, el pueblo de Cuba inici\u00f3 su largo camino de resistencia, y fue avanzando en condiciones adversas sin precedentes.<\/p>\n Todav\u00eda hoy sigue padeciendo el bloqueo econ\u00f3mico m\u00e1s extenso e intenso en la historia mundial.\u00a0 Y no s\u00f3lo, tambi\u00e9n ha resistido ataques terroristas, ha sido invadido militarmente, le ha propinado al soberbio t\u00edo Sam su primera derrota en el continente, y, con todo en contra, ha construido su propio destino.<\/p>\n Pero no s\u00f3lo ha recibido los ataques de la derecha mundial, tambi\u00e9n la izquierda bien portada ha arremetido contra ese pueblo, socorrida de clich\u00e9s y lugares comunes que obvian no s\u00f3lo la realidad cubana, tambi\u00e9n y sobre todo su heroico esfuerzo para levantarse de sus errores y fracasos.<\/p>\n Con el \u00fanico objetivo de hacerse agradable a la derecha, la izquierda institucional en todo el mundo ha atacado a la revoluci\u00f3n cubana repitiendo los dichos de la derecha y siguiendo la moda en turno.<\/p>\n Es tan consistente la resistencia del pueblo de Cuba, que la histeria intelectual que abunda y redunda en este roto pa\u00eds que se llama \u201cM\u00e9xico\u201d, seguramente dir\u00eda que se ha mantenido porque es una creaci\u00f3n de Salinas, y a que es apoyada por la \u201cmafia del poder\u201d.<\/p>\n D\u00edas despu\u00e9s de ese rel\u00e1mpago de habilidad militar y convicci\u00f3n que le dio nuevo significado a un peque\u00f1o territorio y acomod\u00f3 el nombre de \u201cPlaya Gir\u00f3n\u201d en el casi vac\u00edo estante de victorias de la izquierda mundial, en aquel primero de mayo de 1961 el pueblo de Cuba dec\u00eda, por la voz enronquecida de un barb\u00f3n enfundado en su traje verde olivo de combate, las siguientes palabras:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>\u201cSi a Mr. Kennedy no le gusta el socialismo, bueno, a nosotros no nos gusta el imperialismo, a nosotros no nos gusta el capitalismo.\u00a0 Tenemos tanto derecho a protestar de la existencia de un r\u00e9gimen imperialista y capitalista a 90 millas de nuestras costas, como \u00e9l se puede considerar con derecho a protestar de la existencia de un r\u00e9gimen socialista a 90 millas de sus costas.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 Ahora bien, a nosotros no se nos ocurrir\u00eda protestar de eso, porque eso es una cuesti\u00f3n que les incumbe a ellos, una cuesti\u00f3n que le incumbe al pueblo de Estados Unidos.\u00a0 Ser\u00eda absurdo que nosotros pretendi\u00e9ramos decirle al pueblo de Estados Unidos qu\u00e9 r\u00e9gimen de gobierno es el que debe tener, porque en ese caso nosotros considerar\u00edamos que Estados Unidos no es un pueblo soberano y que nosotros tenemos derecho sobre la vida interior de Estados Unidos.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 El derecho no lo da el tama\u00f1o, el derecho no lo da el que un pueblo sea mayor que otro, \u00a1eso no importa!\u00a0 Nosotros no tenemos sino un territorio peque\u00f1o, un pueblo peque\u00f1o, pero nuestro derecho es un derecho tan respetable como el de cualquier pa\u00eds, cualquiera que sea su tama\u00f1o.\u00a0 A nosotros no se nos ocurre decirle al pueblo de Estados Unidos qu\u00e9 r\u00e9gimen de gobierno debe tener.\u00a0 Luego es absurdo que al se\u00f1or Kennedy se le ocurra decir qu\u00e9 r\u00e9gimen de gobierno es el que quiere que nosotros tengamos aqu\u00ed, porque es una cosa absurda; eso nada m\u00e1s se le ocurre al se\u00f1or Kennedy, porque no tiene un concepto claro de lo que es la ley internacional y la soberan\u00eda de los pueblos.<\/em><\/p>\n El texto sigue con una extensa reflexi\u00f3n sobre la ciencia social y el pensamiento cr\u00edtico.\u00a0 Pero me detengo ahora se\u00f1alando que bien puede usted intercambiar el nombre de \u201cKennedy\u201d por el de \u201cTrump\u201d y ver\u00e1 que en esas palabras hab\u00eda no una declaraci\u00f3n coyuntural, sino una declaraci\u00f3n de principios.<\/p>\n Detuve la lectura y mir\u00e9 entonces el reloj de arena.<\/p>\n Se me ocurri\u00f3 que tal vez no es cualquier arena la que contiene.\u00a0 Y tal vez no es cualquiera porque esta arena tal vez viene de una playa reiterada en la historia de lucha y resistencia de la humanidad contra el capitalismo.<\/p>\n Tal vez la arena que fluye de uno a otro lado de este reloj, viene de un lugar del continente americano y su geograf\u00eda la ancla en una isla que se estira en el Caribe, como caim\u00e1n rebelde que se niega a ser sometido y por eso endurece la piel y la mirada.<\/p>\n Tal vez, se me ocurre ahora, la arena de este reloj de arena es arena de Playa Gir\u00f3n, que as\u00ed se llama esa grieta en el muro del Capital y que, con su persistencia, nos ense\u00f1\u00f3 a todos que el grande y poderoso puede ser derrotado por el peque\u00f1o y d\u00e9bil cuando hay resistencia organizada, necio empe\u00f1o y horizonte.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n D\u00e9jenme decirles que el finado SupMarcos, y no s\u00f3lo \u00e9l, sent\u00eda una gran admiraci\u00f3n por el pueblo de Cuba y un profundo respeto por Fidel Castro Ruz.<\/p>\n En aquella pl\u00e1tica informal que tuvimos horas antes de su muerte, la palabra recal\u00f3 en el tema militar.\u00a0 Me cont\u00f3 que \u00e9l consideraba que la historia militar de lucha de los pueblos era poco conocida.\u00a0 Se refiri\u00f3 entonces a la llamada Batalla de Zacatecas y a la Toma de Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, ambas conducidas por Francisco Villa.\u00a0 Me cont\u00f3 que \u00e9l tomo prestada la concepci\u00f3n que implement\u00f3 el General Villa para tomar Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez y con ella dise\u00f1\u00f3 el inicio del alzamiento.\u00a0 \u201cPara la batalla de Zacatecas no me faltaba caballer\u00eda<\/em>\u201d, dijo bromeando, \u201csino planada<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n En lo internacional, contra el com\u00fan de la izquierda, su referencia no era la batalla de Leningrado, sino la Batalla de Santa Clara, conducida por el Che, la de Cuito Cuanabale que dirigi\u00f3 Fidel Castro, y la de Playa Gir\u00f3n, tambi\u00e9n comandada por Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n Aprovech\u00e9 para preguntarle por qu\u00e9, siempre que nombraba a Fidel Castro, no dec\u00eda \u201cComandante\u201d si toda la izquierda latinoamericana lo hac\u00eda.\u00a0 As\u00ed me respondi\u00f3:<\/p>\n \u201cEl que todos as\u00ed lo llamaran pudiera bastar, pero no es por eso.\u00a0 Nosotros somos un ej\u00e9rcito y cuando decimos \u201ccomandante\u201d decimos mando.\u00a0 Y a nosotros no nos manda nadie, como no sean nuestros pueblos.\u00a0 Pero Fidel Castro no necesita que nosotros le digamos as\u00ed.\u00a0 A \u00e9l su pueblo le ha dado ese grado y no necesita m\u00e1s<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Se sigui\u00f3 cont\u00e1ndome sobre Playa Gir\u00f3n y, con admiraci\u00f3n, narraba la ocasi\u00f3n en que Fidel Castro discute y manotea con sus oficiales porque no lo dejan avanzar hacia Playa Gir\u00f3n a combatir contra los mercenarios.\u00a0 \u201cImag\u00ednate<\/em>\u201d, me dijo riendo de buena gana, \u201cFidel contra todo su Estado Mayor.\u00a0 \u00c9l emperrado en que quiere estar en el frente de combate y los dem\u00e1s en que no, que tiene qu\u00e9 cuidarse.\u00a0 Y, \u00bfsabes?, Fidel Castro no argument\u00f3 que era su deber, les dijo que era su derecho<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Encendi\u00f3 su pipa el finado y, despu\u00e9s de la primera pitada la levant\u00f3 como si brindara y dijo: \u201cPor supuesto que la discusi\u00f3n la gan\u00f3 Fidel<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Luego, dando por terminado el tema, a\u00f1adi\u00f3: \u201cFidel Castro es el Maradona de la pol\u00edtica internacional.\u00a0 Y nunca le van a perdonar los goles que le meti\u00f3 a quien se atrevi\u00f3 a enfrentarlo<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Record\u00e9 las palabras del difunto SupMarcos cuando le\u00eda sobre lo que el fam\u00e9lico espectro pol\u00edtico de Latinoam\u00e9rica opin\u00f3 sobre la muerte de Fidel Castro.\u00a0 La reiteraci\u00f3n en la derecha, y en la izquierda bien portada, de reproches y supuestas cr\u00edticas.\u00a0 La derecha que nunca le perdonar\u00e1 las derrotas que les propin\u00f3, y la izquierda institucional que no lo absolver\u00e1 de haber sido todo lo que ella, en su mediocridad, nunca llegar\u00e1 a ser.<\/p>\n Tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1n los mediocres que ahora dictan juicios y sentencias y simplemente no pueden explicar por qu\u00e9, si era un dictador, la mayor potencia mundial no pudo organizar una rebeli\u00f3n popular, y opt\u00f3 por los atentados terroristas para anularlo.<\/p>\n Lejos de la pel\u00edculas de ficci\u00f3n y series televisivas, donde los servicios secretos norteamericanos acaban con los malos armados s\u00f3lo con un lapicero, fracasaron en Cuba sencillamente porque \u201cComandante Fidel\u201d era el nombre, la imagen y la voz que ese pueblo tomaba para reafirmar lo que todo el tiempo y en contra de todo constru\u00eda: su libertad.<\/p>\n Y el dinero busc\u00f3 y busca y siempre encuentra psic\u00f3patas dispuestos a vender su sed de sangre y destrucci\u00f3n.\u00a0 Siempre encontrar\u00e1 a los Mas Canosa, a los Posada Carriles, aunque, en otra geograf\u00eda y calendario, se llamen ac\u00e1 Felipe Calder\u00f3n Hinojosa o como su antes esposa y ahora pretendida amasia Margara Zavala; o como Mauricio Macri en Argentina; o como Temer en Brasil, o como Leopoldo L\u00f3pez en Venezuela.\u00a0 Pol\u00edticos, psic\u00f3patas y corruptos todos ellos, siempre dispuestos a que otros mueran y ellos cobren.<\/p>\n Les cuento esto no s\u00f3lo porque el tema toca lo peque\u00f1o que se rebela y se alza rompiendo moldes impuestos, tambi\u00e9n por lo que ahora les narro: me toc\u00f3 reportarme con el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s en una de nuestras posiciones, precisamente unos d\u00edas despu\u00e9s de la muerte de Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n Cuando llegu\u00e9, la insurgenta Erika me dijo sin poder contener las l\u00e1grimas: \u201cSe muri\u00f3 el Fidel Cuba\u201d.\u00a0 As\u00ed dijo.\u00a0 La revoluci\u00f3n cubana tiene 58 a\u00f1os resistiendo contra todo, la insurgenta Erika debe andar por los veintitantos, nunca ha salido de estas tierras, aprendi\u00f3 el espa\u00f1ol en un campamento de monta\u00f1a, batalla con las matem\u00e1ticas y las palabras \u201cduras\u201d, y, a pesar de eso, o precisamente por todo eso, ha sintetizado en dos palabras toda una historia de lucha, de resistencia y rebeld\u00eda.<\/p>\n Y vengo a hablarles de Cuba, es decir, de Fidel Castro, y de Fidel Castro, es decir, de Cuba, por la sencilla raz\u00f3n de que ya no hablan de \u00e9l.\u00a0 Tal vez porque piensan que ha muerto y, con \u00e9l, la Cuba rebelde.\u00a0 En lo que se refiere a Fidel Castro Ruz, s\u00f3lo les decimos: \u201csi no lo pudieron matar cuando estaba vivo, menos van a poder ahora que ha muerto\u201d.<\/p>\n Todo esto viene al caso, o cosa, seg\u00fan, porque es cierto, el difunto SupMarcos ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n: Abril tambi\u00e9n es ma\u00f1ana.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Volviendo a aquella ocasi\u00f3n, como el tiempo se alargaba, segu\u00ed platicando con el finado SupMarcos cuando todav\u00eda no estaba finado.\u00a0 El tiempo en La Realidad zapatista hab\u00eda entrado en ese ritmo en que parece que el d\u00eda tiene prisa por irse y la noche sigue de perezosa.\u00a0 Me parece que todo lo operativo de ese d\u00eda 24 de mayo del 2014 lo estaba resolviendo el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s, pues al SupMarcos nadie se le acercaba con informes o preguntas.\u00a0 Como si el SubMoy estuviera haciendo todo lo posible para que el SupMarcos pasara tranquilo sus \u00faltimos minutos.<\/p>\n Como segu\u00edamos ah\u00ed, esperando, le pregunt\u00e9 por qu\u00e9 dec\u00eda eso de que \u00e9l era el personaje y no Durito, el Viejo Antonio y los otros seres que poblaron sus relatos.\u00a0 Claro, todav\u00eda no conoc\u00eda yo, ni nadie, el texto que leer\u00eda la madrugada siguiente y que se titula \u201cEntre la luz y la sombra\u201d.<\/p>\n Antes de responderme, el Sup mir\u00f3 ambos relojes.<\/p>\n Nunca antes hab\u00eda hecho eso.\u00a0 Siempre o consultaba uno o checaba el otro, dependiendo siempre de la situaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Despu\u00e9s de confrontar ambos relojes, suspir\u00f3 profundamente y me pregunt\u00f3:<\/p>\n \u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 es lo que no entiendes?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEso<\/em>\u201d, le respond\u00ed, \u201cporque entonces \u00bfqui\u00e9n eres? o m\u00e1s bien \u00bfqui\u00e9n has sido?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Entonces se cuadr\u00f3 e inclinando la cabeza, parad\u00f3jicamente tratando de imitar el tono de voz de los serios y formales samur\u00e1is de Akira Kurosawa, dijo:<\/p>\n \u201cKagemusha<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Y digo que parad\u00f3jicamente, porque el SupMarcos bromeaba de todo y de todo se burlaba, sobre todo de s\u00ed mismo.<\/p>\n Yo puse la misma cara que ustedes est\u00e1n poniendo ahora.<\/p>\n \u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 diablos es eso de Kagemusha?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUn se\u00f1uelo<\/em>\u201d, me respondi\u00f3, \u201cun distractor, una sombra, la sombra del guerrero<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Entend\u00ed entonces el por qu\u00e9, en sus \u00faltimos textos, hab\u00eda aparecido de pronto un nuevo personaje: \u201cSombra, el guerrero\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201c\u00bfY entonces?<\/em>\u201d, pregunt\u00e9 porque s\u00ed.<\/p>\n \u201cEntonces nada, alguien ten\u00eda que hacerlo y a m\u00ed me toc\u00f3<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201c\u00bfY entonces que vas a hacer?<\/em>\u201d, le insist\u00ed.<\/p>\n \u201cMorirme<\/em>\u201d, me respondi\u00f3 mientras se colocaba el pasamonta\u00f1as.\u00a0 Se acomod\u00f3 entonces la gorra, encendi\u00f3 la pipa y, dirigi\u00e9ndose a la guardia que resguardaba la puerta, orden\u00f3 por \u00faltima vez: \u201cDile al SubMoy que estoy listo<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Viene la tormenta.<\/p>\n Una y otra vez, el dinero tratar\u00e1 de romper la historia que importa.\u00a0 Y una y otra vez, ser\u00e1 vencido.\u00a0 Como en un mes de abril de hace ya 56 a\u00f1os, en Playa Gir\u00f3n, generaciones enteras se arrancar\u00e1n los juegos de un tir\u00f3n y se levantar\u00e1n desafiando el destino que se les impone.<\/p>\n Ese d\u00eda volver\u00e1n a escucharse, aunque con otra voz, las palabras que el pueblo de Cuba dirigi\u00f3 a quienes pretendieron doblegarlo:<\/p>\n \u201cTampoco escapar\u00e1n al veredicto de la historia, que no ser\u00e1 un simple veredicto de palabra, sino el veredicto que marca inexorable el destino de los explotadores de todo el mundo, como un reloj que le dice\u00a0 \u201ctus d\u00edas est\u00e1n contados, el fin de tu sistema explotador se acerca<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n Cuba pervivir\u00e1.\u00a0 Los pueblos originarios pervivir\u00e1n.\u00a0 La humanidad pervivir\u00e1.<\/p>\n Y cuando se diga \u201cPatria\u201d, se dir\u00e1 \u201cmundo\u201d, se dir\u00e1 \u201ccasa\u201d, se dir\u00e1 \u201cvida\u201d<\/p>\n Cierto, no habr\u00e1 rel\u00e1mpagos m\u00e1s fieros, ni tormenta m\u00e1s grande, pero al final, esta tierra se levantar\u00e1 y con ella sus mujeres, sus hombres y quienes son lo que son sin ser ni uno ni otra.<\/p>\n La memoria no olvidar\u00e1, pero no habr\u00e1 celebraciones.<\/p>\n No porque no valdr\u00e1 la pena, sino porque la vida entera ser\u00e1 entonces lo que siempre deber\u00eda ser, es decir, una celebraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Y cuando ese ma\u00f1ana llegue, yo, nuevo Kagemusha<\/em> n\u00f3mada, s\u00f3lo lamentar\u00e9 no estar presente para mirarles burl\u00f3n y decirles:<\/p>\n \u201cOdio decir que se los dije, pero se los dije<\/em>\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Gracias, no muchas, pero siempre s\u00ed unas pocas bastantes.<\/p>\n SupGaleano.<\/p>\n Abril del 2017.[:en]<\/p>\n [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/rzchiapas\/supgaleanodos.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n A few months ago, Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s gave me a more extensive and substantive summary of what he just told you.<\/p>\n Perhaps unintentionally, he had detected a through line between the past and the storm that\u2019s here now.<\/p>\n Early this morning, after listening to the stories\u2014told through the voice of SupMoy\u2014of the oldest of our compa\u00f1eros<\/em>, I returned to my hut. In any case, an unseasonal rain had begun to lash the tin roof, and it was impossible to hear anything beside the storm.<\/p>\n I continued rummaging through the trunk that SupMarcos had entrusted to me, because I thought I had seen a text that might relate to what I had just heard.<\/p>\n Reviewing those writings is not easy, believe me. Most of the texts piled in disarray in that trunk date from 1983 to January 1, 1994, and it\u2019s clear that at least until 1992, the Sup not only did not have a computer, he didn\u2019t even have a mechanical typewriter. So the texts are handwritten on pages of all sizes. The deceased\u2019s handwriting was far from legible in any case, in addition to the impact of the time in the mountains, humidity, and tobacco stains and burns.<\/p>\n There\u2019s all kinds of things in there. For example, I found the original manuscript with the operating orders for the different Zapatista military units on the eve of the uprising. Not only do they contain each unit\u2019s makeup, but also each operation, detailed with a thoroughness that reveals years of preparation.<\/p>\n These are not the notes of a poet lost in the mountains of the Mexican southeast, or of a storyteller. They\u2019re the writings of a soldier. No, better said, of a military commander.<\/p>\n But yes, stories and histories also abound and redound. There are a few scattered poems and a sparse array of political and economic analyses.<\/p>\n Well, not so much analyses as schematics and themes in bullet points, as if they were meant to be later developed, or completed, or corrected. I\u2019ve connected some of these with others that were made public later, although by then they were more polished.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not what I was looking for. The stories that SupMoy collected reminded me that there was something in this messy heap of papers and ideas about the genealogy of anticapitalist struggle.<\/p>\n Here it is. This one does come from after the beginning of the war, because it\u2019s printed and the typography is that of a word processor.<\/p>\n Given its content, it must have been written about 20 years ago, when the Zapatistas made public some deeper analyses about what was happening and what they foresaw would come next. Well, at least the first lines, because some of it seems to come from a later period.<\/p>\n The text has a disconcerting title, but which makes more sense as you keep reading. It\u2019s called \u201cApril is also tomorrow,\u201d and following the title are what seem to be points to be developed, left incomplete at the time.<\/p>\n The majority of the concepts appeared fully developed in texts that were made public around the years 1996-1997, so I won\u2019t bore you by repeating them here again. The main ones have now been grouped together in a book called Writings on War and Political Economy<\/em>, by the press \u201cPensamiento Cr\u00edtico Ediciones\u201d [Critical Thought Press]. If anyone is interested in learning more about those topics, this book might be helpful. Or you can also consult the Enlace Zapatista website.<\/p>\n The part I\u2019m interested in sharing with you now doesn\u2019t appear in any of these published writings and, although only moderately developed in this draft, one can glimpse a series of reflections on social science, that is, political economy, as well as on the old and current challenge of theory and practice.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll read it to you:<\/p>\n \u201cThe possible stages of capitalism. More than a scientific definition, the notion that imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism became an action plan for worldwide struggles. From being \u2018the highest stage,\u2019 it was concluded that imperialism was the \u2018last stage\u2019 of capitalism.<\/p>\n Established upon this base was a kind of international division, not of labor, but of anticapitalist struggle. In the so-called Third World countries which weren\u2019t industrially developed and, therefore, were lacking a solid working class, the struggle for socialism had to go through a nationalist, anti-imperialist, and anticolonial struggle, and only then could these populations aspire to be \u2018anticapitalist.\u2019 It was established that the struggle against capitalism and for socialism must necessarily first go through a struggle for national liberation, at least in the so-called Third World countries. In order to transition to socialism, nations first had to liberate themselves from the neocolonial yoke, in this case the one imposed by North American imperialism. The construction of socialism in a sole country wasn\u2019t possible, especially if that country was underdeveloped. The socialist revolution was global or it wasn\u2019t a socialist revolution. Scientific analysis thus became a kind of central command for the global revolution, and it was centered in the USSR. From there came the strategies and tactics for anticapitalist struggles all over the world. Whoever complied with the orders received the approval of the global \u2018vanguard.\u2019 Those who didn\u2019t, who tried to construct their own path\u2014that is, their own struggle\u2014were condemned, ostracized, and labeled with whatever disqualification was in style.<\/p>\n The science of history\u2014political economy\u2014stopped being a science and abandoned scientific analysis, replacing it with slogans. If reality didn\u2019t coincide with the vision of the Central Committee, reality was catalogued as reactionary, petit-bourgeois, divisionist, revisionist, and many other such \u2018-ists.\u2019 Critical thought went from analysis to justification, and all stumbles and errors were covered up under the alibi of confrontation with North American imperialism. The over-simplification of a bipolar world invaded social science and, just like political forces and governments, it chose sides between the two giant and sole contenders. Intelligence was defeated and mediocrity settled in comfortably.<\/p>\n In the mid-twentieth century, everyone was happy and relaxed. The poorly named \u2018Socialist Bloc\u2019 was wholly contained in what we call the Third World War. Struggles in Asia, Africa, and particularly in Latin America\u00a0 played out without particular relevance to that war, the one that mattered, and the political party organizations of the Left at that time were ordered to direct their primary efforts at supporting the Socialist Bloc. Any effort of struggle had to have the approval of the tanks, thinking or not, in the U.S.S.R. where manuals were written that not so much simplified but muzzled the development of social science. As if it were the Olympics, competition in the social sciences was not over who could better understand what was happening and what was to come, but who could raise higher and more frequently their own flag; out with the stars and stripes, out with the hammer and sickle.<\/p>\n On the global stage everything seemed predictable and simple\u2026but that\u2019s when Fidel appeared. And the problem, la problema <\/em>as the compas<\/em> say, is that he didn\u2019t arrive by himself, but brought with him a certain Camilo whose last name provided the definition.[i]<\/a> With this tremendous pair came the Argentine-doctor-photographer-asthmatic without a last name relevant to the genealogical tree of global revolution, and without official position in any structure. Just a few months later, the entire planet would know him by only three letters: Che.<\/p>\n What happened happened, and the light that illuminated the Caribbean in the early 60s became, unintentionally, a virus that contaminated the continent. After a long calendar of defeats across that wound called Latin America, an entire people was organizing itself, changing its destiny and extending its name.<\/p>\n Ever since the failed mercenary invasion sponsored by North America, Cuba\u2019s name has been Fidel and Fidel Castro has carried \u2018Cuba\u2019 as his last name in resistance and rebellion\u2014in struggle.<\/p>\n The smallest, most disparaged and humiliated country rose up and, through organized action, changed world geography.<\/p>\n Within a few years, the statesman put at the head of things by the Cuban people effectively erased all other \u2018world leaders\u2019 and, as it should be for such figures, garnered around him two extremes: the few who would praise him, and the majority who would attack him.<\/p>\n Only a handful watched and learned that something new had arisen, and that the Cuban Revolution had done more than rupture the domination imposed across the Americas by the empire of the stars and stripes, the \u2018brutal and turbulent north.\u2019 It had also shredded the already lifeless social theory herded along by those commissars who across the political spectrum provide the norm and never the exception.<\/p>\n Sixty years later, there\u2019s still no shortage of old commissars who, from their position \u2018heroically\u2019 entrenched in the academy and now armed with social media, attempt to tell the people of Cuba what they should and shouldn\u2019t do and undo.<\/p>\n Far from the theoretical masturbations of the tepid academy, the Cuban people initiated their long road of resistance, advancing in unprecedentedly harsh conditions.<\/p>\n Today [Cuba] still suffers the most extensive and intense economic blockade in world history. And not just that: it has also resisted terrorist attacks and military invasions, handing prideful Uncle Sam his first defeat on the continent and, against all odds, constructing its own destiny.<\/p>\n But it hasn\u2019t only been attacked by the global Right. The well-behaved Left has also besieged the Cuban people, aided by clich\u00e9s and platitudes which ignore not only Cuba\u2019s reality, but also its heroic efforts to rise above its errors and failures.<\/p>\n With the sole goal of making nice with the Right, the institutional Left worldwide has attacked the Cuban Revolution, repeating the slogans of the Right and complying with current fashions.<\/p>\n The resistance of the Cuban people is so consistent that the intellectual hysteria that abounds and redounds in this broken country called \u2018Mexico\u2019 will surely say that it has persisted because it was created by Salinas and is supported by the \u2018mafia of power.\u2019<\/p>\n Days after this lightning bolt of military skill and conviction that gave new meaning to a tiny territory and made space for the name \u2018Playa Gir\u00f3n\u2019 in the nearly empty trophy cabinet of the global Left, the people of Cuba, on May 1, 1961, through the hoarse voice of a big-bearded man in an olive green combat uniform, uttered the following words:<\/p>\n \u2018If Mr. Kennedy does not like socialism, well, we do not like imperialism, we do not like capitalism. We have as much right to protest the existence of an imperialist and capitalist regime 90 miles off our coast as he may consider he has the right to protest the existence of a socialist regime 90 miles from his.<\/em><\/p>\n Now then, it would not occur to us to protest such a thing, because that\u2019s the business of the people of the United States, a question that corresponds to them. It would be absurd for us to try to tell the people of the United States what system of government they should have, for in that case we would be dismissing the United States as a sovereign people and assuming that we have rights over the domestic life of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n Rights do not come from size; rights do not come from one country being bigger than another. That does not matter! We have but a small territory, a small nation, but our right is as respectable as that of any country, whatever its size. It would not occur to us to tell the people of the United States what system of government they must have. It is absurd for Mr. Kennedy to tell us what kind of government he wants us to have, it\u2019s an absurdity; such a thing only occurs to Mr. Kennedy because he does not have a clear concept of international law and the sovereignty of peoples.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The text continues with an extensive reflection on social science and critical thought. But I\u2019ll stop here and point out that you could easily replace the name \u201cKennedy\u201d with \u201cTrump\u201d and see that these words reflected not a\u00a0 declaration of a critical juncture, but rather a declaration of principles.<\/p>\n I stopped reading then and looked at the hourglass.<\/p>\n It occurred to me that maybe it doesn\u2019t just contain any old sand. Maybe it\u2019s not just any old sand because this sand might come from a beach invoked again and again throughout the history of humanity\u2019s struggle and resistance against capitalism.<\/p>\n Maybe the sand that flows from one side of this \u2018clock\u2019 to the other comes from some place on the American continent and its geography is anchored on an island stretched across the Caribbean like a rebellious caiman that refuses to be subjugated, thus hardening its skin and its gaze.<\/p>\n Maybe\u2014it occurs to me now\u2014the sand from this hourglass from Playa Gir\u00f3n. Maybe that\u2019s the name of the crack in the wall of Capital which, with its persistence, taught us all that the great and powerful can be defeated by the small and weak when there is organized resistance, stubborn determination, and a new horizon.<\/p>\n -*-<\/p>\n Let me tell you that the deceased SupMarcos, and not only him, felt a great admiration for the people of Cuba and a profound respect for Fidel Castro Ruz.<\/p>\n In the informal chat we had hours before his death, our words circled on military topics. He told me that he thought the military history of peoples\u2019 struggles was little known. He referred to what was called the Battle of Zacatecas and the taking of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, both led by Francisco Villa. He told me that he borrowed the concept implemented by General Villa to take Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez in order to design the initial uprising. \u201cFor the Battle of Zacatecas I wasn\u2019t lacking cavalry<\/em>,\u201d he said jokingly, \u201cjust flat land<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Internationally, and despite norms on the Left, his reference point wasn\u2019t the Battle of Leningrad but the Battle of Santa Clara, led by Che, of Cuito Cuanavale, led by Fidel Castro, and of Playa Gir\u00f3n, also commanded by Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n I seized the opportunity to ask him why, when he referred to Fidel Castro, he didn\u2019t say \u2018Comandante\u2019 as does the\u00a0 entire Latin American Left. He responded:<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that everyone calls him that would be reason enough, but that\u2019s not why. We are an army, and when we say \u2018comandante\u2019 we\u2019re saying \u2018command.\u2019 And nobody commands us but our own peoples. But in any case Fidel Castro doesn\u2019t need us to call him that. His people have given him that rank and he doesn\u2019t need anything else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He continued telling me about Playa Gir\u00f3n, and narrated with admiration the occasion on which Fidel Castro argued and physically scuffled with his own officials because they wouldn\u2019t let him advance toward Playa Gir\u00f3n to combat the mercenaries. \u201cImagine<\/em>,\u201d he said, laughing heartily, \u201cFidel against his entire military staff: him determined to be on the front lines, and the rest of them insisting he had to protect himself. And you know what? Fidel Castro didn\u2019t argue that it was his duty; he argued that it was his right.\u201d<\/em> The deceased lit his pipe and, after the first puff, lifted it as if he were giving a toast and said, \u201cOf course Fidel won the argument.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Later, closing conversation on that topic he added, \u201cFidel Castro is the Maradona of international politics. And they\u2019ll never forgive him for the goals he made against those who dared to confront him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I remembered the words of the deceased SupMarcos when I was reading what the emaciated Latin American political spectrum opined about the death of Fidel Castro: the reiteration by the Right and the well-behaved Left of reproaches and supposed critiques\u2014this from a Right that will never forgive him for the defeats he handed them, and from the institutional Left that will never absolve him for having been all that they, in their mediocrity, will never be.<\/p>\n There are also those mediocre people who pronounce judgements and sentences but simply can\u2019t explain why, if he was a dictator, the greatest power in the world couldn\u2019t organize a popular rebellion against him and opted instead for terrorist attacks to destroy him.<\/p>\n Far from the fiction films and television series where the North American secret service does away with the bad guys armed only with a pen, they failed in Cuba simply because \u201cComandante Fidel\u201d was the name, image, and voice which that people took on to reaffirm what they had been constructing at all times and against all odds: their freedom.<\/p>\n Money sought and seeks and always finds psychopaths ready to sell their thirst for blood and destruction. It will always find the Mas Canosas, the Posada Carriles\u2014although, in another geography and calendar, they may be named Felipe Calder\u00f3n Hinojosa, or his former wife and now supposed sweetheart Margara Zavala; or Mauricio Macri in Argentina; or Temer in Brazil; or Leopoldo L\u00f3pez in Venezuela. Politicians, psychopaths, and crooks, all of them. Always ready to let others die so that they can to get paid<\/p>\n I am telling you this not only because it brings up the subject of that small thing that rebels and rises up, breaking imposed molds, but also because of what I\u2019m about to tell you next. Just a few days after the death of Fidel Castro, I had to report to Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s at one of our positions. When I arrived, the insurgenta<\/em> Erika told me, unable to contain her tears: \u201cFidel Cuba died.\u201d She said it just like that. The Cuban Revolution has resisted against all odds for 58 years; insurgenta <\/em>Erika must be twenty-something\u2014she\u2019s never left these lands, she learned Spanish in an encampment in the mountains, she struggles with math and \u201chard\u201d words, and despite all that, or precisely because of it, she synthesized in two words an entire history of struggle, of resistance and rebellion.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve come to talk to you about Cuba\u2014that is, about Fidel Castro, and by Fidel Castro I mean about Cuba\u2014for the simple reason that he is no longer spoken of. Maybe because they think that he died and rebel Cuba died with him. With regard to Fidel Castro Ruz, we\u2019ll just say this: \u201cif they couldn\u2019t kill him when he was alive, even less possibility they have now that he\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n All this is relevant because it\u2019s true, the deceased SupMarcos was right: April is also tomorrow.<\/p>\n -*-<\/p>\n Going back to that moment, as time dragged on, I continued talking with the deceased SupMarcos when he wasn\u2019t yet deceased. Time in Zapatista reality\/La Realidad had entered that rhythm that makes it seem like the day is in a hurry to end and the night is lazy in coming. It seems that Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s was handling all issues regarding operations that day, May 24, 2014, since nobody approached SupMarcos with reports or questions. It was as if SubMoy was doing all he could so that SupMarcos could have calm during his final minutes.<\/p>\n As we continued waiting there, I asked him why he said that thing about he himself being the character, rather than Durito, Viejo Antonio, or the other beings who populated his tales. Of course, at that point I didn\u2019t yet know, nor did anyone else, about the text he would read in the coming early hours of the morning, called \u201cBetween Light and Shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n Before responding, the Sup looked at both of his watches.<\/p>\n He had never done that before. He always either consulted one or checked the other, depending on the situation.<\/p>\n After confronting both watches, he took a deep breath and asked me:<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is it you don\u2019t understand?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cJust that,\u201d<\/em> I responded, \u201cBecause then who are you? Or better yet, who have you been?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He then stood at attention and, bowing his head and trying paradoxically to imitate the tone of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s serious and formal samurais, declared:<\/p>\n \u201cKagemusha.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I say \u201cparadoxically\u201d because SupMarcos joked about everything and made fun of everything, most of all himself.<\/p>\n I made the same face that you\u2019re all making right now.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat the hell is Kagemusha?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cA decoy,\u201d<\/em> he responded, \u201ca distractor, a shadow, the shadow of the warrior.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I understood then why, in his last texts, all of a sudden a new character had appeared: \u201cShadow, the warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so?\u201d<\/em> I asked him.<\/p>\n \u201cSo nothing, someone had to do it and it fell to me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo what are you going to do?\u201d<\/em> I insisted.<\/p>\n \u201cDie,\u201d<\/em> he replied while putting on his ski mask. He put on his cap, lit his pipe and, turning to face the guard who was protecting the door, gave an order for the last time: \u201cTell SubMoy that I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n -*-<\/p>\n The storm is coming.<\/p>\n Time and again, money will try to undo the history that matters. And time and again, it will be defeated. Just like in that month of April, now 56 years ago, on Playa Gir\u00f3n, when entire generations rose up and challenged the fate imposed on them.<\/p>\n That day they will hear once again, though now in a different voice, the words that the people of Cuba said to those who tried to crush them:<\/p>\n \u201cYou, neither, will escape the verdict of history. It won\u2019t be a simple spoken verdict, but rather a verdict that inexorably marks the fate of the exploiters of the whole world, like a clock that says, \u2018your days are numbered, the end of your exploitative system is drawing near.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Cuba will live on. The originary peoples will live on. Humanity will live on.<\/p>\n And when we say \u201chomeland,\u201d we will be saying \u201cworld\u201d; we will be saying \u201chouse\u201d; will be saying \u201clife.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, there will be no fiercer lightning bolts, no greater storm. But in the end, this land will rise up and with it its women, its men, and those who are who they are without being one or the other.<\/p>\n Memory will not be forgotten, but there will be no celebrations. Not because it won\u2019t be worth celebrating, but because all of life itself will then be what it should always be\u2014that is, a celebration.<\/p>\n And when that tomorrow comes, I, a new, nomadic Kagemusha, will only regret not being there to look at you mockingly and say:<\/p>\n \u201cI hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you, not too much, but always at least quite a little bit.<\/p>\n SupGaleano<\/p>\n April 2017<\/p>\n<\/a><\/h4>\nKAGEMUSHA: APRIL IS ALSO TOMORROW.<\/h4>\n
Seminar “The Walls of Capital, the Cracks of the Left”
\nCideci \/ Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas
\nApril 12, 2017<\/h4>\n