HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Egalitarianism, Social Revolution, Constitution Of Cuba
24 May 2016
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Lecture 12: start of an egalitarian revolution (land, labor, social services) cuba, it involved direct mobilization begins nationalizing (august to september, public utilities taken over by the state, may 1961 castro declared cuban revolution was socialist inspired movement. He declared himself a marxist most people view fidel more of converted. Set up a 1 party political system (under control of vanguard- small leadership) Unlike pnr, or mnr in bolivia and in mexico (the cuban party was not a mass based party) Pnr in mexico tried to include everyone, mnr tried to an extent. Cuban didn"t really try to get everyone (and even then power stayed within. Pcc (cuban communist party) wanted mass organizations, means of accomplishing structural change. No formal institutions but rather smaller committees (federation of women, Debate over how the revolution should accomplish egalitarian reform. Unlike mexico or bolivia the cuban had to remove a feudal economic system no semi- feudal system.
