I believe the perfect divine truth, which is best, though nowhere near perfectly, revealed to us currently in Christianity and to a lesser, but still significant extent in most other religions, traditions, and sciences, will be refined into a more perfect form in a post-Christian tradition which will develop after the final victory of communism. Beyond that, who knows what might transpire.
For those who see history as a competition, Latin America’s backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure. We lost; others won. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America’s underdevelopment is, as someone has said, an integral part of the history of world capitalism’s development. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others- the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
Open Veins of Latin America | Eduardo Galeano (1971)
