The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny. — Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban, October 1960 When enacting and advocating Cuban policy, Guevara cited the political philosopher Karl Marx as his ideological inspiration. In defending his political stance, Guevara confidently remarked that There are truths so evident, so much a part of peoples knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them. One ought to be Marxist with the same naturalness with which one is Newtonian in physics, or Pasteurian in biology. According to Guevara, the practical revolutionaries of the Cuban Revolution had the goal of simply fulfill(ing) laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist. Using Marxs predictions and system of dialectical materialism, Guevara professed that The laws of Marxism are present in the events of the Cuban Revolution, independently of what its leaders profess or fully know of those laws from a theoretical point of view.
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