QUESTION: A great many writers in Latin America besides yourself talk of socialism (Marxist-Leninist) as a desirable alternative. Don’t you think this is rather ‘old-fashioned’ socialism somehow? Socialism is no longer a generous abstraction but a rather unattractive reality. Do you agree that after what has happened in Poland, nobody can believe that the working class is in power in those countries. Can you see a third option for our continent between decadent capitalism and decadent ‘socialism’? GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: I don’t believe in a third option. I believe there are many alternatives—perhaps even as many alternatives as there are countries in our Americas, including the United States. I am convinced that we have to find our own solutions. We can benefit, wherever possible, from what other continents have achieved in their long turbulent histories but we must not go on copying them mechanically as we have done until now. This is how we can eventually achieve our own brand of socialism.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 01:42:26 +0000
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