Fundamentalism and Oppression

Fundamentalism and Oppression
Posted on April 7, 2013

Fundamentalism and oppression. Both are ingredients essential to
dictatorships and cause fear and immobility and societies.
Fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, is the banner of
totalitarian regimes and the quintessential seasoning of the armies and
police of oppressive governments. They are the two drugs that produce
the group's eternal dream of remaining in power, to the detriment of the
sociopolitical, cultural and economic development of the whole country.

Worth comparing, for example, to what Japan was before and after 1945
and how it exchanged futons for beds, har-kari for mea culpas, and how
it evolved from feudalism to be one of the major economic powers of the
world. The Korean case is even more illustrative. A people divided by
two different government systems: the north, abusive and a violator of
people's fundamental rights, evidence of a manipulated egalitarianism
and fictionalized uniformity, while in the south, citizens go on strike,
demand their rights, elect governments, produce …

I think of Cuba and what we have and what we will become — if God lets
me live — and I feel more optimistic. And so, some time ago I started
moving and exercising my right to think, speak and act with freedom of
conscience, despite the fifty-year dictatorship that oppresses us, nor
do I rest in planting the seeds. Now we are beginning to see the positions…

4 April 2013

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