Throughout that period, indeed up to the time of writing, there was no organized internal opposition to the Revolution on any serious scale whatever. footnote 1 Yet between January 1959 and November 1960 the corporate wealth of the Cuban bourgeoisie was expropriated with little or no compensation and their political power was swiftly and completely annulled. Dogmatic Marxism is curiously joined by North American liberalism in this belief. To take only one example: the first phase of the Revolution -the overthrow of Batista-has been widely described as “bourgeois” or “middle-class”. And this has been almost completely absent from the great volume of debate which the revolution has given rise to outside Cuba. Yet this significance can only be properly understood after an exact characterization of its particular nature. The universal significance of the Cuban revolution makes it one of the decisive phenomena of our time. For the first time capitalism has been confronted with a major revolution realized in conditions of world peace, rather than out of a context of general war. For the first time a socialist revolution has occurred in a relatively developed country. For the first time one of the non-aligned nations has joined the Communist world. For the first time a socialist revolution has been carried through without the leadership of a Communist Party. For the first time the new forms of colonialism have been unequivocally rejected. For the first time there has been a socialist revolution in the Americas. T he Cuban revolution is now widely recognized as an event of world-historical importance.
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