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GUERRILLAS IN POWER K. S. Karol Hill and Wang; 1970 550 pp.; $12.50 CUBA: SOCIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT Rene Dumont Grove Press...
SINCE last year's Venceremos brigades re-opened interest in the fate of the Cuban revolution, many books deluged the market to meet the new demand. Two of the most recent entries, both translated from French, Guerrillas in Power by K. S. Karol and Cuba: Socialism and Development by Rene Dumont, provide seriously interested readers with the most thorough studies of Cuba's revolutionary problems. Although sympathetic to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, both Dumont and Karol remain pessimistic about Castro's leadership...
...Karol persuasively discusses these political problems and other decisions the Cubans have faced. Although the depth of his analysis cannot be disputed, his book gives no clear picture of the people's daily lives. While Karol criticizes Castro for not restructuring the social relationships, Karol, himself, neglects to delve into the nature of these problems. He only hints, for example, that education and male-female roles are still very backward. That these relationships have survived the revolution indicates some serious misjudgment in priorities...
...KAROL focuses on why Russian strategy as pursued by the Cuban PSP failed miserably. During the 1930's the Comintern line dictated Communist party coalitions with bourgeois groups, making a united anti-fascist front. Batista, then in power, at American urging welcomed the legitimacy brought by collaboration with the popular PSP. This work-through-the-system strategy, however, meant an ideological retreat for the militants as they had to accept Batista's policy with little power to criticize. Stalin repudiated the PSP, because he rightly felt that this interpretation of the Comintern strategy led to dangerous revisionist theories which would...
...Simone de Beauvoir, Alberto Moravia and Carlos Fuentes) protested. But what got him out, five weeks later, were his own words. Padilla abjectly confessed to "a series of insults and defamations against the revolution, which are now-and always will be-my shame." He accused European leftist Writers K.S. Karol and René Dumont, who recently published critical studies of Castro's regime (TIME. Feb. 8), of being "unquestionably CIA agents...