ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the Sorelian conception of the political myth as formulated at the start of the century better to appreciate the staying power of the Fidel Castro regime. To start with, Sorel pointed out that the actual empirical potentials of socialism are so paltry that without the political myth the idea of socialism would collapse. The problems with the myth of moral man turned out to be somewhat larger than the myth itself. The kernel of truth in the myth of revolutionary will is the huge role of personality in the progress of the Cuban Revolution. The use of foreign adventures as a form of policy-making is hardly unique to Castro's Cuba. Castro applied the lessons of decision theory more than economic laws. Castro argues that capitalism provides different streams of education— private for the wealthy and public for the poor— whereas communism does away with such artificial distinctions.
