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Historical materialism is the lens with which Marxists view stages of human economic development. Increasing efficiency of human l ...denounced the gay-bashing U.S. government when the media here attacked the Cuban Revolution on April 16, 1965, saying it was interning gays in labor camps. ...

...sphere. Che Guevara took personal control and participated actively in the Cuban efforts to inspire “new Cubas” in Latin America. In response, the United St ...he organization of the urban working classes and the peasantry against the Cuban dictatorship. For Che, guerrilla warfare involved political as well as mili ...

Until the mid-1970s few Marxists questioned the axiom that anticolonial struggles are progressive and import ...ithin the US were part of that nation or were a US ‘national minority’ For Marxists, the latter position implied an obligation to use multinational, not nation ...

...an Americans organized an international solidarity campaign to support the Cuban War of Liberation against Spain. No one seemed to know that Haiti was viewe ...lieved that a Cuban victory would enhance freedom’s march everywhere: “The Cuban Revolutionists still hold out against all the force the Spaniards are able ...

== Pioneer Marxists in the United States (1848–1860) == ...d. Arriving in 1851, Weydemeyer stood out as the leader among the American Marxists, which then included such men as F. A. Sorge, Adolph Douai, August Willich, ...

...f this we have the view of the American electoral system from a foreigner, Cuban leader Raúl Castro. He has noted that the United States pits two identical ...protected by the US government, though he masterminded the blowing up of a Cuban airplane that killed 73 people. He's but one of hundreds of anti-Castro ter ...

...medical school; and worse still, the island was being turned into a Soviet-Cuban launching base "to export terror and undermine democracy."<ref>''The New Yo ...cs were opened in the countryside, thanks mostly to assistance rendered by Cuban doctors. Measures were taken in support of equal pay and legal status for ...

...varying levels of political experiences and influences. Encouraged by the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the gathering pace of the black freedom movement in ...When white youth mockingly referred to him as “the cha-cha-cha,” a popular Cuban music genre and dance form, the name stuck. In spite of indignities like th ...

...eory (addressing Régis Debray and those who, with an incorrect take on the Cuban experience, undermine the importance of revolutionary theory), he argues: “ Also, while drawing lessons from the Chinese, Vietnamese and Cuban revolutions in this book, the author deciphers both the similarities and th ...

...ity—helping a rebellious group overthrow foreign rule—as in Cuba. By 1898, Cuban rebels had been fighting their Spanish conquerors for three years in an att ...es on Cuba in 1898. Businessmen had been interested, from the start of the Cuban revolt against Spain, in the effect on commercial possibilities there. Ther ...

.../sup></blockquote>Rodney had visited Cuba as a student, the year after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Things were not settled in Cuba, as they had become in ...trality of the workers and peasants was a fact established not only by the Marxists at the university or the students, but also by the governing party in Tanza ...

But Marxists have no fear of the future. They represent the class to which the future be Headed by Lenin, the Russian Marxists foresaw the socialist revolution in Russia as a task which history had matu ...

...nt led by Thomas Sankara; Armando Hart, one of the historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution and long-time minister of culture; and Ulises Estrada, director ...a – a piece of Cuba’s territory held by Washington against the will of the Cuban people – for a prison housing hundreds seized primarily in Afghanistan as p ...

...ns a serious force in world affairs. Finally, we rest in Havana, where the Cuban revolutions put the cult of the gun on the table. The Third World agenda hi ...n all the patriotic forces against European colonialism. In Indonesia, the Marxists, the Islamists, and the nationalists formed the main opponents of Dutch rul ...

...USSR, Vietnam, Korea, China, Cuba, and so forth.¹¹ The Western Marxists, by contrast, were intellectuals who opposed these efforts to construct soc ...take explicitly anti-Marxist positions, as we shall see. What the Western Marxists examined in this book share in common, then, is not their dedication to Mar ...

...instance, when oil and sugar prices took a dive in the 1980s, the USSR and Cuban economies suffered major revenue shortfalls. The economic dependency on lib ...political systems in place in Cuba, Laos, the PRC and Vietnam, even as the Cuban case departs substantively from the others and is, arguably, the closest to ...

...ource=[https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm Marxists Internet Archive]}} ...and this right is respected throughout the world, except in the case of a Cuban prisoner of war in the hands of an implacable tyranny that abides by no cod ...

When PPP measures began to be widely used, a common reaction among Marxists and radical critics of neoliberalism was to suspect the motives behind them ...his. The mainstream, dominant concept of productivity, which even has many Marxists in thrall, fails the test of internal validity as well. In a word, the conc ...

...nt is given much weight by Eurocentric Marxists, since class struggle, for Marxists, is the central force in historical evolution.</ref> ...y the Chinese, but the great majority of European scholars, including most Marxists, believe that European feudalism was unique in representing a form of socie ...

...ce of consciousness, which is a very powerful force and one that even some Marxists have been tempted to underestimate. ...ontent. That is true. There are Marxists who have become legal or armchair Marxists, who would like to see Marxism as merely another variant of philosophy and ...