The Cuban Revolution

Abstract

Five Cuban intelligence agents sit in federal penitentiaries across the United States because they infiltrated antirevolutionary groups in Miami intent on doing violence in Cuba. These five men represent a long line of those who have acted from an understanding of their roles in the long human historical drama. The Cuban Revolution did for radical youth of the 1950s what the Bolsheviks did for their ancestors. You could play a role in history and see the results. And in the early stages they looked very good. The more cautious Mensheviks and the more radical Bolsheviks agreed that it was absurd to think of building socialism in one country. In 1917 attempts to duplicate the overthrow of capitalism failed in Europe and socialism did develop in the largest land mass in the world. The Soviet Union endured as a painfully inefficient state-directed economy and a repressive society for some 70 years before it imploded. In 1959, Cuban leaders echoed similar sentiments. A revolution on one island? The actions of guerrillas of the mountains and the underground were rooted in a larger revolutionary context, one supplied by Bolivar, O'Higgins, and the other Latin American liberators. Cuba began to export revolution? at least ideas?to Caribbean islands and to the South and Central American countries as well.