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On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Charlie via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: . . . > Cuba survived independent of imperialism and took the socialist road because > the Castro group and the Communists merged fairly soon after liberation. . . . You could argue that the July 26th movement's 'merger' with the USSR-connected Popular Socialist Party two-and-a-half years after the revolution was responsible for revolutionary Cuba's survival in the sense that this diplomatic bow to the Soviet Union was helpful in assuring continuing international aid and support from the Soviet bloc. But the July 26th movement leadership made sure to keep the PSP in a subordinate domestic political role through many years of rough relationships in a process of integration (as manifest in the Escalante case to which Louis refers) that eventuated in officially founding the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965. I think that it wasn't until the first congress of the Communist Party of Cuba met in 1975 that the former-PSP had been finally integrated. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
