Revolutionary Cuba ─ PSMLS Audio

The People’s School for Marxist-Leninist Studies

The PSMLS presents this full length class hosted by the Latino Commission of the Party of Communists USA and a guest speaker from Midwestern Marx on the 26th of July Movement and the broader revolutionary history of Cuba. It is vitally important for Communists in the United States to study, understand, and appreciate the contributions that the Cuban people, particularly the Cuban Communists, have given to the world revolutionary movement. The revolution lives on in Cuba and its continued existence is a testament to the strength of socialism, which has proven it can be built less than 200 miles off the coastline of the US. We hope you learn something new! Connect with PSMLS: linktr.ee/PSMLS Literature Used In This Class: N/A Recommended Literature: Fidel Castro: Selected Speeches (2022) www.lulu.com/shop/fidel-castro/fidel-castro-select… Dialectical and Historical Materialism by J.V. Stalin (1938) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/j-stalin/dialectical-and-h… Foundations of Leninism by J.V. Stalin (1924) www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/jv-stalin/foundations-of-l… Wage Labor & Capital by Karl Marx (1847) www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labo… Join the PCUSA: linktr.ee/partyofcommunists 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Lecture 1 10:20 Colonial Cuba? (Q&A) 13:25 Maps of Cuba 13:51 Progressive Latin America 14:24 Puerto Rico parallels 16:00 Indigenous culture 16:34 Arawakan linguistic family 17:05 Ideological tools 18:46 Big Cuban monopolists? 20:08 Join the PCUSA's Latino Commission 20:26 Lecture 2 26:50 Cuban cash crops 28:16 Martí the socialist? (Q&A) 29:42 Appeals to Jeffersonianism? (Q&A) 32:49 Guantanamera? (Q&A) 33:06 Lecture 3 49:13 Martí's canonization? (Q&A) 51:57 Gusano nonsense 52:18 Cuba travel? (Q&A) 52:59 Minimum Communist program? (Q&A) 55:35 Ending the blockade? (Q&A) 57:25 Cuba travel cont. 58:20 Cuban mafia 58:52 The Granma Expedition 1:00:30 Role of propaganda? (Q&A) 1:02:04 More on canonization 1:03:46 Fidel Castro: Selected Speeches 1:04:01 Counter-revolutionary forces 1:05:40 Role of Raúl? (Q&A) 1:06:35 Lecture 4 1:10:37 Martí statue & Dutch corporations 1:11:46 Martí & anti-imperialism? (Q&A) 1:12:53 Socialism a universal? (Q&A) 1:15:25 Martí and Marxism-Leninism 1:16:36 An American Martí? (Q&A) 1:18:17 Context of the Revolution 1:20:26 Racist demonization of Cuba? (Q&A) 1:22:59 Ñico López 1:24:55 Cuba & multi-polarity? (Q&A) 1:26:28 Revolutionary toolbox 1:27:09 Importance of defending Cuba 1:28:19 Bourgeois attitudes toward Cuba? (Q&A) 1:31:13 Gusano exiles? (Q&A) 1:34:14 Personal experience in Cuba 1:35:27 Political Parties in Cuba? (Q&A) 1:36:38 Concluding remarks