ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at Fidel Castro views on social revolution and indicates how he has helped to implement it in Cuba. It demonstrates how assorted “rectification” plans have fostered economic and social change. The chapter shows how the Revolution has wrought considerable progress in race relations and describes how it has endeavored to eliminate sexism. It explains to what degree Cuban society has changed as a result of the Revolution’s effect upon organized religion. Cuba’s Revolution proved the possibility of destroying the old capitalist order without enunciating a guiding theory. The Ochoa case damaged the Revolution psychologically and morally, weakened its cohesion, and cast aspersions on its leadership. The various rectifications of the Revolution have changed the structure of Cuban society. Spanish-speaking visitors to Cuba generally agree that the Revolution has done a better job in eliminating racism than it has in reducing sexism.
