Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more than ten years ago, David Egozi and Eugene Ramos fled their native Cuba to avoid jail after Fidel Castro's regime found them guilty of being "capitalistic." That charge was, and is, eminently justified...
...Castro's return to the realm of pragmatism coincided with a reconciliation with Russia. Not only did Fidel abandon his ideas of active connivance in Latin American guerrilla movements, but, Karol argues through his fiercely anti-Stalinist perspective, Castro adopted the Russian model of development of the 1930's based on low consumption and high investment behind a centralized and vertical power structure operating in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Karol indicates that, to justify this new position, Castro made several theoretical distortions, and abandoned his earlier anti-Stalinism and recognition that Cuba was not a proletarian...
...sugar obsession" characterized Cuba's new line. Despite warnings of economists that a ten million ton zafra [harvest] in 1970 was unattainable (Dumont argued that 1975 would be a more realistic date for such a goal), Castro made it a matter of honor to fulfill the revolution's goals. Emphasizing political spirit and good will- a factor Karol ignored in his Russia 1930's comparison- the harvest brought temporarily renewed optimism, as any Venceremos will tell you. Yet the cost of the failure was staggering: serious dislocations in the economy resulted because most of the labor force was diverted...
SOCIALIST revolution remains a bigger battle than liberation from oppression. For Cuba, the real task started when Castro took power. But Fidel has yet to realize that socialism is more than an alliance with friendly allies and five year belt tightening programs. Socialism can only liberate if the people create new institutions to serve their interests efficiently and honestly. Only then will social relationships change...
There is of course great hope for the Cubans. The era of patchwork reforms must soon end; this reality is staring in Castro's face. At the end of last year's sugar harvest, Fidel gave a humble, highly self-critical speech. Hopefully he will come to recognize in his revaluation that the people through their own institutions must control their own existence...