ABSTRACT
The processes of colonial dominance are complex phenomena. In the Caribbean, they are characterized by diversity, but also by the subaltern imprints through which subjects, islands, and nations were shaped by slavery, plantation economies, and the racist ideology that has been encouraged since the 16th century. Soviet-style orthodox Marxism impregnated the dynamics of several Cuban organizations, and despite encountering strong resistance, it imposed itself successfully by the end of the 1960s as the dominant rule in the daily life of various academic, economic, military, cultural, and other organizations. In educational policy, it had the effect of reducing the teaching of Marxism into a caricature and forceps that even reached college levels. In the ideological confrontation between Cuba and the United States during the 1960s, one element is usually overlooked, namely the victory of the Black Civil Rights Movement in that country. Fidel Castro cleverly added the anticapitalist political capital of this movement to the Cuban Revolution.
