Archive for January 3rd, 2009
Cuba: Stalinism isn’t socialism
Posted by John, January 3rd, 2009 - under Middle class, Peasants, Socialism, Socialist democracy, Stalinism, State capitalism.
Tags: Capitalism, Castro, Class struggle, Classes, Communist Party, Cuba, Democracy
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One of Marx’s unique and profound contributions to socialism is his idea that the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class. This is the very reason Cuba isn’t socialist. In 1956 Castro arrived in Cuba with 82 middle class nationalists to overthrow the US backed Batista dictatorship. After being attacked […]