HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin
20 Apr 2017
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Outline of today"s lecture: review, obama(cid:495)s visit to cuba, marxist-leninist ideology, us influence in cuba, build up and revolution, main figures (castro and che, life on the hyphen (cuban americans; text) Cuban revolution: challenge to us dominance, even up until today. Marxist-leninist ideology: germany, 19th century: karl marx believed that capitalism would generate increasing tensions, with exploited workers eventually pursuing to overthrow it and its industrialist nations, russia, late 19th/ early 20th centuries: vladimir lenin drafts a version of. Marxism with powerful repercussions in latin america, arguing that the revolution should remain in the hands of a few and should be done as a (cid:494)dictatorship of the proletariat(cid:495)(cid:495) (cid:523)needed to fully eradicate capitalism(cid:524). American war (1898: culminated in the us-backed government of fulgencio batista ousted by. Castro and his followers on january 1st, 1959: replaced with a government of socialist leanings.
