On his Twitter account, the intellectual wrote that the new website arises from the document Sembrar Ideas, Sembrar Conciencia (Sowing Ideas, Sowing Awareness), a Cuban proposal to promote exchanges from from left-wing and progressive movements against colonization.
The program was presented during the celebrations on Jose Marti’s 170th birthday and is based on a call from the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, to respond with the weapons of ideas and awareness to the aggressiveness of the Government of the United States against Cuba.
Prieto recalled that at the 6th Congress of the National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in 1998, the Commander-in-Chief dedicated his speech to cultural globalization.
He added that it was ‘the most important of all issues, the biggest threat against culture, not only against ours, but against the world’s.’ He insisted that Cuba had to defend itself against ‘the most powerful instrument of imperialist domination.’
According to the text, in the light of that severe warning, the importance of the phrase ‘culture is the first thing to be saved,’ stated by Fidel in 1993, was better understood.
Among other analyses, the website (https://sembrarideas.wordpress.com/) contains the article ‘La descolonización como clave del pensar’ (Decolonization as a key to thinking), by Mexican political scientist Fernando Buen Abad, who calls attention to the heritage of ‘our’ thinkers, who are so not only due to geographical reasons but due to decolonizing objectives in all their lines.
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