RKOB doesn't explain how the Cuban revolution transformed into a Stalinist counter-revolution!
Yet as early as 1921, Lenin saw this danger! The working class was exhausted by the civil war, and the party and the revolution now rested solely on bureaucratic apparatuses. This is the complete opposite of the Cuban revolution. The working class was the central driving force of the revolution, through its support for the guerrillas, through strikes—particularly the general strike that led to the uprising of January 1, 1959—through the mobilizations that led to the declaration of its socialist character in 1961, through the mobilizations of tens of thousands of volunteers for international solidarity, such as in Southern Africa or Nicaragua, through the medical brigades, through the difficult times of the Special Period, up to the current oil blockade and threat of military intervention! How can this voluntary involvement of the Cuban masses, numbering over a million, be considered passive and submissive, contradicting their clearly expressed proletarian consciousness, as seen in the May Day mobilizations of 2026 or their willingness to offer their lives in defense of the revolution's gains? At what point was the Cuban working class crushed by the Stalinist counter-revolution? Certainly, we have observed in recent years a certain moral exhaustion, expressed through mass emigration and a weakening of the will to make sacrifices. There is no communist victory elsewhere that would improve the material situation of Cubans. This discouragement has not yet reached the level Lenin felt in 1921 regarding the USSR! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41792): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41792 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119270444/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
