The Cuban Revolution's War Against Lumpen Elements

[Rakhmetov]

This is a very unknown fact about the Cuban revolution and about future revolutions. How do we rid ourselves of the scum of the lumpen- proletariat? :crying:

At first, they [the imperialists] had the bourgeoisie, the landowners. They had vacillating individuals of the middle classes, including those of the petit bourgeoisie. But now, where are they going to find allies? Among the workers" [shouts of "No"!]

At first they sought out those classes because they existed as such in our country and they were their allies. Now they only have the lumpen. They are the only potential allies for imperialism. The lumpen. And some who have the mentality of lumpen or get mixed up with them. As simple as that. But they are the only potential allies left to imperialism. And this lumpen is where they have to get their refugees, their asylum seekers, their dissidents.

http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1980/05/01.htm

[ZeroNowhere]

How do we rid ourselves of the scum of the lumpen- proletariat? :crying:Send them to Auschwitz to be sacrificed at the foot of Satan's throne as we dance and sing hymns to Belial. We shall thereby be capable of summoning His Majestic power to rule over us and spread unholy darkness over the land.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I think the migration of Cuban criminals to the US was more a tool of Cuban government policy at the time to threaten the US with - the US obviously didn't want Cuban lumpen on their soil but Cuba had the threat of allowing criminals from the jails to leave Cuba for the US, which they did.