ABSTRACT
Many people laboring for the interests of profi teers as value-producing commodity dissatisfi ed with the exploitive and alienating nature of capitalist society, a direct attack on our “species being” (Marx, 1884/1978), have turned to the enemy of capitalism, that is, Marxism, anarchism, and the movements and nations that claim to follow their texts in the form of socialism and communism. If the longing gaze of those critically conscious laborers, alienated by private capital, has more than once been fi xated upon socialist nations, then what is it that we see and hope to see in countries such as post-1959 Cuba, which has been described as an island of socialism in a sea of capitalism? Put another way, what can we learn from Cuba about resisting capitalism? In the following essay it is my attempt to begin to answer this question, taking cues from some of the most insightful scholars in the struggle.
