The revolutionary thought of Cuban jurists.

65 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, it is plausible to evoke the philosophical thinking of jurists, philosophers and political scientists of yesterday, today and always in Cuba.

«Law does not exist as an artificial laboratory reality; the juridical phenomenon is part of the burning existence of society, it emanates from it, it is cooked in it and is aimed at producing certain effects within that social dynamic. Thus, no legal system, and therefore Law in an absolute and universal sense, is ever alien to social struggles, to the spirituality of a specific society, to its culture, its ethnic, national, religious contents; its political struggles, its class confrontations, and in general, to the millenary struggle of man for his survival and happiness, which would be as much as to say, his elementary welfare», expressed Doctor Julio Fernández Bulté, an exceptional Cuban jurist of all times.

While Professor and Doctor Orestes Hernandez, whose name distinguishes the Honorary Chair of Law at the University of Matanzas, in the volume Anthology of Documents for the Study of the History of the State and Law in Cuba, October 1976, emphasized that «…. in these days, from a new ideological perspective corresponding to today’s popular interests, an updating of the same form of revolutionary juridical conscience that began to be integrated when the generations of Céspedes and Agramonte gave, in Guáimaro, its first institutional expression to the Revolution».

On the other hand, Dr. Diego Fernando Cañizares Abeledo, winner of the National Law Award of Cuba, in his work Teoría del Estado y del Derecho. Editora Universitaria. Havana, 1970, stated: «political ideas find direct personification in the juridical laws and the change of policy, of political conceptions, is also reflected in the juridical conscience. (…) Without the existence of juridical conscience, certain juridical relations cannot be established because the juridical ideas, concepts and theories corresponding to a determined social stage, serve as a guide for action and orientation for men in the field of the normative regulation of social life, that is, in the field of Law».

Written by Doctor Osvaldo Manuel Álvarez Torres .