Entrails Konfetti
21st June 2006, 03:52
There were some defects in the Cuban Revolution, it has been stated endlessly that Communist Revolutions were meant for the first world, and that the Cuban revolution wasn't a Communist revolution at first. Though there isn't much mention of how the revolution was organized.
The role of the guerilla band was to show the true tyrannical face of the Batista regime by creating a climate in which the regime acts in hostility to the general populace, causing citizens to go on the side of the guerillas.
The structure of the guerilla army didn't focus on directly incorporating the populace. First it was the guerilla army's internal structure that laid down the ground rules, which left no room for the external structures to make their own policy. Second the peasents and the workers were organized into one council, and their main function was to dissent against the current regime by organizing strikes, and lock-outs. This didn't take into account the different interests of the classes. Third, after the revolution the guerilla army became a party and left no room for automony on the part of the workers to control the means of production.
Though in all fairness the cuban Revolution wasn't a Communist Revolution at first, so it didn't try to exclusively involve the proletariat. For example it gave consessions to the pette-bourgeoisie when it confiscated goods from stores with bonds of hope, and they helped protect their stores and organize trade. They also protected the land of peasents. Once Cuba couldn't find support anywhere but the USSR, they alienated the middle-classes, and some of the peasents-- leaving them with a structure that couldn't have the working-class in control of the means of production. If they left the power exclusively in the hands of the proletariat, that meant the revolution would have to spread farther in a timely manner before conditions became too unstable. So to maintain stability they tried to spread the revolution before giving power to the workers, only to end in defeat.
The USSR at the time didn't want them spreading the revolution to other countries, in fear that it would challenge the power, and wealth of the party beaurcrats. On the one hand since the revolutions failed they needed aid, and trade from somewhere and the only place to give it to them was the USSR. On the otherhand say if they were to become truly capitalist this meant the re-introduction of gangsters, and back into the old ways, although much worse-- there wouldn't be a major country to trade with. So the influence of the USSR caused the structure of the state to become a millitary dictatorship.
Once the USSR fell this made economic conditions harsh leaving Castro to privatize small sectors of the country only enough so that the government could maintain its control from gangsters and imperialists setting up too many businesses and bleeding the country dry.
Because of the embargo, Cuba isn't able to industrialize, even if they could this it wouldn't save them from their current situtation. The only thing that could save them is that if revolutions from the masses spread across the globe. Though this depends on three things; one how much are the Cuban people willing to put up with the present conditions, though they are educated and might be able to organize the means of production they have to be very conscious of their future tasks, and know what it will all require. The second thing being is if the party bureaucrats would be willing to step down from power once global revolutions are possible. Third, if the party steps down too soon this could make the organized proletariat weak, and easily defeated by a counter-revolution.
The role of the guerilla band was to show the true tyrannical face of the Batista regime by creating a climate in which the regime acts in hostility to the general populace, causing citizens to go on the side of the guerillas.
The structure of the guerilla army didn't focus on directly incorporating the populace. First it was the guerilla army's internal structure that laid down the ground rules, which left no room for the external structures to make their own policy. Second the peasents and the workers were organized into one council, and their main function was to dissent against the current regime by organizing strikes, and lock-outs. This didn't take into account the different interests of the classes. Third, after the revolution the guerilla army became a party and left no room for automony on the part of the workers to control the means of production.
Though in all fairness the cuban Revolution wasn't a Communist Revolution at first, so it didn't try to exclusively involve the proletariat. For example it gave consessions to the pette-bourgeoisie when it confiscated goods from stores with bonds of hope, and they helped protect their stores and organize trade. They also protected the land of peasents. Once Cuba couldn't find support anywhere but the USSR, they alienated the middle-classes, and some of the peasents-- leaving them with a structure that couldn't have the working-class in control of the means of production. If they left the power exclusively in the hands of the proletariat, that meant the revolution would have to spread farther in a timely manner before conditions became too unstable. So to maintain stability they tried to spread the revolution before giving power to the workers, only to end in defeat.
The USSR at the time didn't want them spreading the revolution to other countries, in fear that it would challenge the power, and wealth of the party beaurcrats. On the one hand since the revolutions failed they needed aid, and trade from somewhere and the only place to give it to them was the USSR. On the otherhand say if they were to become truly capitalist this meant the re-introduction of gangsters, and back into the old ways, although much worse-- there wouldn't be a major country to trade with. So the influence of the USSR caused the structure of the state to become a millitary dictatorship.
Once the USSR fell this made economic conditions harsh leaving Castro to privatize small sectors of the country only enough so that the government could maintain its control from gangsters and imperialists setting up too many businesses and bleeding the country dry.
Because of the embargo, Cuba isn't able to industrialize, even if they could this it wouldn't save them from their current situtation. The only thing that could save them is that if revolutions from the masses spread across the globe. Though this depends on three things; one how much are the Cuban people willing to put up with the present conditions, though they are educated and might be able to organize the means of production they have to be very conscious of their future tasks, and know what it will all require. The second thing being is if the party bureaucrats would be willing to step down from power once global revolutions are possible. Third, if the party steps down too soon this could make the organized proletariat weak, and easily defeated by a counter-revolution.