Re: Castro and Communism

[DaneBowen@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/2003 10:20:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, jsq@quarterman.org writes:

> Interesting.  All the external information sounds familiar.
> What led you to conclude he was not a communist when he came to power?


It is the totality of info on Castro, and it is massive.  One excellent, huge study is that of English historian Hugh Thomas, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom.  See page 1,222 et seq.  Castro originally called his movement "humanist."  Before coming to power he was fond of quoting "Jose Antonio," the spiritual leader of the Fascist Falange Party of Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain. The Communist Party of Cuba had accepted a cabinet post in the Batista regime.  The Party had to do some dancing around to adjust its position on "petit bourgeois" like Castro.

Basically, Castro was a Hispanic nationalist (both his father and his mother were from Spain) who was offended by the overwhelming presence in the private sector of American culture in Cuba. The growing Cuban middle class loved just about everything about America and embraced it.  

Castro's racial background was all Celtic, from Galicia, in northwestern Spain, one of those corners of northwestern Europe into which the Celts had been pushed by the Germanic tribes.  Perhaps that is one reason he is so hard to deal with!!!!
  
Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Cannon, Carlton (Carleton),  Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Gye (Guy, Guye), Harris, Porter, Luker, Richey (Ritchie, Richie, Ritchey), Sanders (Saunders), Spence, Sloan, Way, Weaver, and Wells families.