The Communists are not Communists

September 16, 2021

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Fidel Castro was an Opportunist. When the Cuban Revolution happened, he was even a Bourgeois. The Cuban Revolution itself pretty much was a Bourgeois revolution. Castro himself openly criticized Socialism.

“Communism means the dictatorship of the proletariat, the dictatorship of a class. I have fought my entire life against dictatorship.”

Castro apparently was the average misunderstander of the term “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” This proves Castro was completely ignorant of what Socialism was. Castro himself only began studying Socialism after Khrushchev offered him aids, which he happily took, and praised Khrushchev, denounced Stalin in Khrushchev’s favor. He turned Cuba into the USSR’s backyard afterwards.

“By moving towards a market, we are not swerving from the road of socialism. What had collapsed [in Eastern Europe] was not socialism but Stalinism.”
~Mikhail S. Gorbachev: *Report to 28th Congress*, CPSU, in: Keesing’s Record of World Events, Volume 36; p. 37, 615.
“History will pronounce the final judgment on him. I do not want to be Gorbachev’s judge. I can only say that during the time I knew him, he behaved in a friendly manner toward me. He seemed to want to improve socialism, even if the final result was different. He wrote it in his book “Perestroyka” too, making it clear that he was not against socialism, indeed he wanted more socialism. It seems to me, however, that now there is less socialism than ever in the former USSR-and indeed the USSR does not even exist any more. Someone once said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
"Gorbachev never spoke of destroying the Soviet Union or of destroying socialism. He always spoke of improving and perfecting it and the other socialisms. Who could oppose such propositions? Hard and terrible events followed and all this had consequences for our country. What fault do we have in all this? That that country, which had such solid commitments in all areas, would cease to exist is something that seemed incredible but that should be and has been a lesson to us."

Later, Castro proclaimed to be a Marxist Leninist. However, he was only “Marxist” to the point that he believed Socialism was a humanist ideology.

Che condemned Castro. Mao condemned Castro. No, they specifically condemned his paths. Che opposed Castro when Cuba was about to sign a military agreement with the USSR. Che condemned the USSR of being “accomplices of U.S. imperialist exploitation.”

Che upheld Stalin and Marxism Leninism when Castro defied him.

“In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Series of things that are very good.”

Castro later left Che to die. "No contact with Manila," Che wrote in his notebook, while being marched to death to Bolivia.

Mao also condemned people who followed Castro’s path.

"If we are going to argue basically, we must tell some basic truths and we must unmask everything that is of fascist type hidden under Marxist emblems. (applause) Of course this story of revolutionaries, who in spite of having done good things in their lives have committed great barbarities later at the end of their lives, is not new. During the past days we have seen with sorrow the things that men are capable of doing when they degenerate."
"They are a result, in part, of having confused Marxism-Leninism with fascism, with absolutism. They are the result of having introduced the style of absolute monarchies into the contemporary socialist revolutions. This revolution, fortunately, is a revolution of young men and we hope that it will always be a revolution of young men. (applause) We hope that all revolutionaries, as we become biologically old, are capable of understanding that we are becoming biologically and lamentably old."

Even in 1992, only a year after the Bourgeoisie and Revisionists doomed the USSR, Castro still upheld the Revisionists.

“I can’t say that Gorbachev played a conscious part in the destruction of the Soviet Union, because I have no doubt that Gorbachev’s aim was to struggle to perfect socialism.”
~Fidel Castro in: ‘Guardian’, 30 May 1992; p. 25.

Not only the USSR, but Castro also sided with many other Imperialists, Revisionist and anti-Marxist forces.