Cuba and Western Intellectuals since 1959

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 A New Political Dawn: The Cuban Revolution in the 1960s......Page 12
Cuba and the New Left: The Story So Far......Page 14
What's to Be Learned?......Page 16
History, Agents, and the Transmission of Ideas......Page 19
The Story from Now On......Page 24
Part I: The Actors......Page 28
2 Cuba: The Myth and the Reality of an Original Revolution......Page 30
Cuba in the 1960s: Political Independence and Sovereignty......Page 32
A Radical Transformation of Society......Page 37
A Communist Revolution without a Communist Party......Page 40
Intellectuals in the Revolution: A Cuban New Left?......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 55
3 Who Cared about the Cuban Revolution Then … and Who Cares Now?......Page 58
Defining the New Left: A Multi-layered Reality......Page 59
Toward a Global Definition of the New Left......Page 65
A New Left in the Twenty-first Century?......Page 69
Part II: Cuba in the Imagination of the New Left: Three Examples......Page 72
4 Geopolitics and Race: The Cuban Revolution and the U.S. New Left......Page 74
Who Constituted the U.S. New Left?......Page 75
Enter Cuba: The Early Days of the New Left and the FPCC......Page 78
Cuba Exits the New Left Stage: The Cuban Revolution in the U.S. New Left, 1965–1970......Page 83
The U.S. New Left from the Cuban Viewpoint: Students or Black Liberation Movement?......Page 86
5 British Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution: Neutralism or Revolution?......Page 94
The First New Left: Agents and Formative Processes......Page 95
The Cuban Revolution and the British New Left......Page 105
The Radicalization: Cuba or the Advent of Third World Socialism......Page 109
The Cuban Revolution and the British New Left: A Fruitful Exchange?......Page 113
Membership and Formation of the Early French New Left......Page 116
The Cuban Revolution and the French New Left: Part One......Page 122
The Radicalization of the French New Left......Page 127
The Cuban Revolution and the French New Left: Part Two......Page 129
The Separation Between the French New Left and the Cuban Revolution......Page 131
Part III: The New Left and Its Ideas......Page 136
7 Cuba and the Third World: Evolution of a Concept and a Relationship......Page 138
The New Left Journals as Outlets of Cross-fertilization......Page 139
Third World or Third Way? The Non-aligned Movement and Peace......Page 146
Third World Revolution as the Only Way......Page 149
The Long Decline of the Intellectual in the Twentieth Century......Page 154
8 The New Left: Activists or Intellectuals?......Page 160
The New Left as a Search for the Role of the Intellectual......Page 161
The Role of the Intellectual in the New Left's Discourse: A Story of Four Models......Page 165
On the Mismatch Between Theory and Reality......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 183
9 Conclusion: Cuba's New Dawn, Part II......Page 186
The Story So Far......Page 187
The 1990s: Crisis or New Dawn?......Page 193
Cuba and the New Battle of Ideas......Page 196
Notes......Page 200
Selected Bibliography......Page 222
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