“Human rights” vs the Rights of Humanity

In Defense of Liberation

In this episode, we talk about how frequent it is conveyed that the most important thing to humankind are these vague notions of human rights. Yet as Dr. Fidel Castro told us many times, there is a difference between human rights and the rights of humanity. There can be no discussion of human rights in the name of billions who live without so much as a piece of bread. There can be no discussion of human rights in the world plagued with destructive and imperialist wars. It is the rights of humanity, which must be discussed, that demand an end to all colonial, imperialist, and capitalist wars. And it can only be those who fight for the rights of humanity, the rights of all, to self determination, self defense, ownership of their own resources, land, and labor, who can bring this conversation through to action.