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Castro's Cuba, by C. Wright Mills
Castro's Cuba, by C. Wright Mills
Professor Wright Mills of Columbia University has already shown himself in The Power Elite and The Causes of World War IlI an outstanding exponent of the liberal view in American politics. In the summer of 1960 he visited Cuba. The result was this book.
CASTRO'S CUBA is a passionate plea for a better understanding of the reasons for the overthrow of the Batista regime and of what Fidel Castro and his Government stand for today. It is directed primarily at the author's own countrymen, but it has significance for the whole free world. For, as Professor Wright Mills points out, Cuba is but one of many underprivileged, "hungry" nations which in the post-war world are struggling for real independence, economic as well as political. These nations are at present happy hunting grounds for Communist infiltrators and propagandists. It is the author's contention that present-day Cuba has no wish to embrace Communism but that American policy is leaving Castro with practically no alternative.
MICHAEL FOOT, writing in the Daily Herald, says:
"Anyone who supposes that Castro and his colleagues represent nothing more than a passing phenomenon in the comic opera history of Latin American upheavals, or anyone who supposes that they have made Cuba a 'Communist satellite', had better read Professor Mills first. His book ought to be at the top of the list of required reading for the new occupant of the White House."
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