The Cuban Revolution according to Dr. Thalia
A Leninist revolution from the South that has much to teach the world
Today, January 1, 2024, marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. On this day on January 1, 1959, the Cuban dictator Batista fled the country, and the revolutionary Rebel Army took control of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, with no resistance from what remained of Batista’s army.
I have in two previous posts reviewed the life and work of Dr. Thalía Fung, founder of the Cuban Society for Philosophical Investigation and of the Cuban school of Political Science from the South.
“Dr. Thalía Muklan Fung Riverón: Science and revolution from Cuba and from the Global South,” December 1, 2023
“The philosophical testament of Thalía Fung: A call for political philosophy from the Global South,” December 29, 2023
Today, in commemoration of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, I endeavor to express Dr. Thalia’s understanding of the Cuban Revolution, using her seminal 2014 book, La ciencia política enfoque Sur.1 In writ…