If they want to keep socialism instead of putting the proletariat back into capital’s chains? Yes. Doing otherwise is called being a traitor to the proletarian class. There is genuinely nothing else to call it.
[Cuba] weren’t strictly Marxist-Leninist until after the revolution
What do you mean by this? The revolution itself as a broad national liberation struggle of average people led by a vanguard of communists? Or do you mean that Fidel was not a marxist-leninist until after the revolution?
If you mean the latter, there is video of Che disputing it. When an interviewer said to Che that people in the US believe he “pulled Castro left” and that the revolution itself was pulled left by Che pulling the strings behind the throne, Che says otherwise. He says he likes this characterisation but his revolutionary and personal honesty must admit that Castro is “the most leftist man in Cuba and greatest danger to the US”, not himself. I do not believe that Che means this only occurred after the revolution because the interview question is specifically on whether Che pulled Fidel left. I’ve just spent a good deal of time digging up the specific timestamp for this, the question is at 23:01 of this video: https://youtu.be/hau5Rxkw-Wg?t=1375
My firm belief is that the idea they were not communists (and specifically Fidel) before the revolution was simply a clever play that worked to build a broad struggle and to reduce the chance of capitalist powers from intervening. Take note that in the following part where he is asked if Fidel was a communist at the time they met, he also says that he himself was not a communist at that time. I am quite certain they all became communists before the revolution was over, and quite probably had all become or at least flirted with such before it had fully began.
If they want to keep socialism instead of putting the proletariat back into capital’s chains? Yes. Doing otherwise is called being a traitor to the proletarian class. There is genuinely nothing else to call it.
What do you mean by this? The revolution itself as a broad national liberation struggle of average people led by a vanguard of communists? Or do you mean that Fidel was not a marxist-leninist until after the revolution?
If you mean the latter, there is video of Che disputing it. When an interviewer said to Che that people in the US believe he “pulled Castro left” and that the revolution itself was pulled left by Che pulling the strings behind the throne, Che says otherwise. He says he likes this characterisation but his revolutionary and personal honesty must admit that Castro is “the most leftist man in Cuba and greatest danger to the US”, not himself. I do not believe that Che means this only occurred after the revolution because the interview question is specifically on whether Che pulled Fidel left. I’ve just spent a good deal of time digging up the specific timestamp for this, the question is at 23:01 of this video: https://youtu.be/hau5Rxkw-Wg?t=1375
My firm belief is that the idea they were not communists (and specifically Fidel) before the revolution was simply a clever play that worked to build a broad struggle and to reduce the chance of capitalist powers from intervening. Take note that in the following part where he is asked if Fidel was a communist at the time they met, he also says that he himself was not a communist at that time. I am quite certain they all became communists before the revolution was over, and quite probably had all become or at least flirted with such before it had fully began.