Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro (far left) and Che Guevara (center), in Havana in 1960.
On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara
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To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
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The more that I read the more pissed the fuck off I get about all of the stereotypes and arguments against Marxism and outright lies about it and about Lenin.
I read a very in depth bio about Lenin and just finished State & Rev, and now I'm reading Blackshirts and Reds and Chomsky is quoted saying that Lenin intended for the intelligentsia to run the state NO THAT WAS THE FUCKING NARODNIKI!!!! LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU FUCKERS SAY ABOUT THE IDEOLOGY IS WRONG AND HAS ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED AND RIGOROUSLY ADDRESSED BY MARX AND LENIN FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCXKKKKKKKKKK
Like really I haven't read much theory or anything and I feel like I can debunk all of the accusations/criticisms from the left and the right already wtf
Chompsky, known associate of Jeffry epstine, one made the following claim while possibly flying on the Lolita express
Narodniks weren't interested in a state run by the intelligentsia, they were fully agrarian pilled, they were weebs for the russian peasantry, it was just that they managed to convince literally 0 russian peasants. Like they thought that the Russian peasantry was the revolutionary class, as soon as they were convinced by the intelligentsia.
Lmao that's so good. I know they believed that the peasantry were the revolutionary class, but they believed that they (the intelligentsia) were essentially the vanguard of the peasants, did they not?
They did believe that the peasantry needed a vanguard to lay down the path, yeah. But again the whole thing was fully built around a fully activated and mobilised Russian peasantry, hence the need to "go to the people" for which they were so (in)famous.
Gotcha, yeah the distinction there is important. Chomsky is still stupid and more wrong than I am, though. Lol