Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Komunisme bukanlah kata yang saya pikirkan ket...

"Komunisme bukanlah kata yang saya pikirkan ketika saya pergi ke Kuba. Fidelistas asli bukan Komunis. Mereka adalah mahasiswa pascasarjana di universitas dan mahasiswa hukum. Setelah Fidelistas mengambil alih, mereka pergi ke Washington dan mencoba untuk mendapatkan dukungan dari pemerintah AS, yang menolak mereka. Mereka berada dalam situasi politik dan ekonomi yang putus asa, sehingga mereka menerima tawaran dari Uni Soviet. Komunisme adalah masalah kebutuhan."

--- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.