What of the Cubans?
It seems to me that over the past year or so, there have been two types of demonstration, the Black Lives Matter type, and the populist type. I think Black Lives Matter and the related Critical Race Theory are mislabeled as Marxist (I haven't seen the term Marxist-Leninist used at all, but that would be more accurate if it were correctly applied). BLM is an alliance between bourgeois elites and the Lumpenproletariat . Bourgeois are the traditionial Marxist enemy, while the lumpenproles, street rabble and petty criminals, are unreliable as allies of workers. Nothing could be less Marxist in principle. The Leninist component of Marxism-Leninism, something the bourgeois Edmund Wilson nevertheless recognized in To The Finland Station , added the extreme ruthlessness necessary to accomplish a revolutionary agenda, without which no such activity can move beyond idle theorizing and play-acting. The problem with both BLM and CRT is that neither recognizes the need for ruthlessness, incl...