Castro's recklessness during the missile crisis (along with Khrushchev's & Kennedy's) nearly destroyed the world. Worth thinking about.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Castro was a nationalist (specifically an anti-American nationalist) first & a socialist second (almost as a byproduct).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I don't think this is correct at all. It's obviously the case that he didn't BEGIN as a Communist but he most certainly became one
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Replying to @davidrieff
But the core identity was a desire to defy America & free Cuba (& broader Latin America) from American hegemony.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Think for example of Cuban military intervention in Angola
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Replying to @davidrieff
Perhaps our disagreement is I see the anti-colonialism as being slightly distinct from (although overlapping with) the socialism
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Why do you find it so hard to believe Castro was both? And you under-estimate Castro when you describe his Marxism as reactive.
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But I take your point that the anti-colonialism & Marxism can be seen as working hand in hand.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
To cite an obvious example, Trotsky began as a Menshevik
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