ABSTRACT
The Cuban Revolution is worthy of study because it presents us with an example of what a revolutionary state has tried to do, how it has gone about it, and what has resulted from the effort. In 1895, the war of independence broke out again, this time led by the Cuban Revolutionary Party under the guidance of Cuba’s most important poet, national hero, and thinker: Jose Marti. An amendment to the Cuban Constitution, dictated by United States (US) military authorities, allowed the US government to pass judgment on the acceptability of Cuban public policy. The United States had come to represent capitalism as well as imperial power, and Cuban nationalism and socialized property were integrated into the new revolutionary ideology. The European Parliament, as well as traditional leftist friends of the Cuban Revolution, are demanding the establishment of a more open political system in the island. When the Cuban revolutionaries attained power, the country confronted serious economic problems.
