ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the basis of a participatory political culture and discusses the extent to which new values lead to participation and by whom. Political culture is shared in a different way from ideology, being less consciously assimilated and therefore broader. In addition to greater participation in cultural activities for the ordinary citizen, the political culture incorporates diversity and what is new and worthy in artistic values and creation. The very evolution of citizens’ political culture under the impact of the revolution has essentially modified the conditions for the exercise of participatory democracy and popular power in Cuba. In every Cuban workplace, participation is linked in some way to the existing union organization, the aim being the gradual development of forms of administrative partnership and an increase in production and productivity. The literacy campaign launched in 1961 was aimed not only at teaching Cubans to read and write but also at providing essential political knowledge about national and international reality.
