In this letter which he wrote to Carlos Quijano, the editor of the Uruguayan newspaper Marcha, Major Ernesto Guevara refutes with clarity and simplicity, the image of the individual living in the socialist state—insulted, beaten and reduced to mere nothingness—the image depicted and circulated by the imperialist press. Personal individuality, the new society, and the tasks of the community are the basic factors discussed by Guevara in MAN AND SOCIALISM IN CUBA. In the light of the fascinating Cuban Revolution, Guevara formed his personal opinions; as the Revolution took shape and gained strength, breaking the political tradition in which all events are associated with individual names, there appeared a new, well-defined character—the people: a people who do not act like a flock of sheep, but who influence, decide and command. “For those who do not live the experience of the revolution, the difficult thing to understand is that close dialectical unity between the individual and the mass, where both are interrelated, and where the mass, as a whole composed of individuals, interrelates in turn with the leaders,” wrote Guevara. For the revolutionary Cuban people, work does not end with the construction of a new economic society. They are planning the development of the new man—communist man. “The true revolutionary,” Guevara points out, “is guided by strong feelings of love. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love for the peoples, and make it one and indivisible.”