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'La última lucha de Lenin' featured at Havana book fair panel (continued)
Panel at Havana Book Fair presentation of
La última lucha de Lenin
Mary-Alice Waters, president of Pathfinder Press and the chair of the event, pointed out that “Pathfinder published
Lenin’s Final Fight
because it is needed.
Now
. By those around the world who are determined to put an end to capitalism’s exploitative, oppressive, and more and more destructive social relations. By those who are determined to act, to transform the course of human history.” For the complete text of Waters’s remarks
click here
.
“Studying Lenin’s contribution elicits questions that lead us to understand better the Russian Revolution and our own revolution,” said Gladys Gutiérrez, national president of the Federation of University Students of Cuba. She pointed out that Cubans of her generation—she was born in 1985—had never known a world in which the Soviet Union even existed. Her “only reference point for a socialist revolution has been the Cuban Revolution.”
Diosmedes Otero spoke on behalf of the four volunteers who in the mid-1990s, as young faculty members at the University of Matanzas, worked together to check the standard Spanish translations of the material being prepared for the first Pathfinder edition of
La última lucha de Lenin
. Otero described how the four went about carefully checking the translation and discussing their work until they were satisfied they had achieved the most accurate translation, “not just the words but the spirit” of what Lenin said.
The panel also included Fernando Martínez Heredia, recipient of Cuba’s 2006 National Social Sciences Award and today the director of the Juan Marinello Center for Research on Cuban Culture. Today, he concluded, “Lenin continues to help us more and more in the vital task of defending and deepening socialism.”
A presentation on
La última lucha de Lenin
was also given by Waters at Havana’s main university of science and engineering, the Instituto Superior Politécnico (Higher Polytechnic Institute) “José Antonio Echeverría,” popularly known here as CUJAE. The University of Havana’s Department of Philosophy and History organized a similar program February 22.
The Havana book fair is Cuba’s largest cultural festival and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from Havana as well as across the island. Pathfinder Press has participated in the annual book fair for over twenty-five years.
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