Why did the Cuban revolution succeed while pretty much every single other Marxist revolution failed?

Why did the Cuban revolution succeed while pretty much every single other Marxist revolution failed?

Extreme incompetence on the part of the government, and a shit ton of luck.

> Batista regime was corrupt as fuck
> Batista army was shit
> Fidel was a strong charismatic caudillo and latinos love that shit

Cía help, us well know fact

>Fidel was charismatic
>Che was ruthless
>Batista was an idiot
>Batista and his regime were ridiculously corrupt
>Batista's regime was counting on foreign aid to prop him up
>Batista's army was shit and led by incompetent people.

Some f Fidel's tactics included organizing his army as say. Reg 1,2,3. And 7 so when they are out in the jungles and shit the opposition thought there woukd be way fucking more of them/hesitated.

Why did so little other Caribbean countries follow suit? Fear of the US?

OP here, I know this but I mean why did it continue to succeed afterwards? Everything else either collapsed (Eastern Europe) became horrible to live in (North Korea, Venezuela) or went back to being capitalist (China). Cuba meanwhile, despite all the embargos, has been relatively stable, has top-notch healthcare, and now even rakes in tourismbux. It isn't perfect obviously but it seems to be me the only revolution that pretty much worked.

The collapse of the soviet union was an accident. It could have survived if Gorbachev and the coup leaders had not been stupid.
Their economic crisis was awful, but not many people were pushing for capitalism. They were more often pushing for independence.
That was not an issue for Cuba, where there's only one nation.

They also had no good reason or opportunity to turn progressfully towards capitalism, with all the antagonizing going on with the US, the embargo, and their lack of industrial capabilities.
That might change in a decade or two after Raul dies.

>suceed
you would not say that if we were in the special period.
Who knows, maybe in the future you would say "Venezuela's revolution succeed".

Also I have a problem with your terms, there is marxism, and there is marxism-leninism, maoism, chavismo etc. So is complex to put them in the same bag.

Cuba wasn't initially commie but switched to it later on.

>sustained by the USSR from 1961 to 1991
>sustained by Venezuela from 1999 to the present day
>already trying a way to be sustained by the U.S. since Venezuelan is colapsing

The only period where Cuba actually had to stand on it's own was during the 1990s. And during that period it experienced a famine and massive crisis.

Cuban communism is not sustainable.

Agriculture in Cuba literally regressed to mediaeval standards, they're using starved cattle to plough their fields.

Che and Camillo being super charismatic and having popular support certainly helped. Once the government has been established, Fidel held it all together by being an astute politician. Plus he had all good rivals killed (including his partners killed), so there wasn't anyone waiting on the wings.

Cuba was just particularly bad. Haiti and Dominican Republic, while corrupt and authoritarian under Duvalier and Trujillo, weren't completely sold out to the mafia like Batista and were especially vigilant for communist agitation after the Cuban Revolution. Plus, in DR it was easy to deflect with ill feelings towards Haitian immigrants.

If you look elsewhere to Jamaica, they became independent from the UK and after a about a decade actually elected a fairly socialist government under PM Michael Manley, an open Marxist, in a peaceful transition of power.

The Cuban Revolution was one of those "lightning never strikes the same place twice" things for the Caribbean.

>Who knows, maybe in the future you would say "Venezuela's revolution succeed".
Let's hope so!

>China
>Capitalist

good one senpai

sure as shit aint communist

The government holds the majority influence in the economic direction of the country so I wouldn't say it's far off.

thats true for literally every country
you think the US government doesn't have a massive influence on the economic direction of the nation?

Of course. But I'm not the one calling these countries 'Capitalist'.

>V
>Integrated into globalism
>Corrupt and starving

>C
>No chance for globalism
>Regularly hosts American academics
>never even close to starvation
>Long life spans

>America
>Power over life and death
>New generations have lower predicted average lifespans than older generations
>Oi vey preexisting conditions better lobby to keep it that way haha you stupid sheeple

Che and Fidel had patchy manchild beards. This was a massive advantage to them, as every time this was pointed out, both of them would have a fit of rage

to answer your question, they were propped up by the soviet union

cuba was right on americas doorstep, maintaining it as a functional communist country was a high priority, the other countries behind the iron curtain werent such an issue because when things failed massively they could just repress reports and it wouldnt be a propaganda issue, they needed to prop cuba up with the basic resources it needed to maintain the image of communism as a viable system on the world stage

on top of that due to simple geographical and cultural differences the government naturally maintained a much higher level of independence than the warsaw pact countries

as people have mentioned it really went to shit in the 90s but due to propaganda, government repression and its isolation as an island and the relative resistance to US influence things werent bad enough for it to actually fall, since then they have generally stopped being full retard and put the countrys well being over government power or ideological concerns

of course now that access to the US has opened up, its over, its just a matter of time before cuba is fully integrated into the globalist system, this is for the benefit of the cuban people

unlike most (if not all) other dictators related to the communist bloc, castro was a real revolutionary who actually wanted the best for its people - unlike the others who were on it for the power trip only and once in power saw everyone as expendable which was a problem once the "democratic" world turns on you and you start getting paranoid and seeing spies and saboteurs all over the place in your mind

so he was probably one of the only "benign" dictators in the history of mankind, to be place in the same place as napoleon for example... people that didn't follow the rules but still had a moral code to follow - unlike all others who played calvinball with countries

also, forced protectionism works ok if you have enough resources to supply your people, this would work in cuba where the population density isn't very high, but wouldn't work in china for example where imports are fucral or else a huge part of its people would just die of famine

>became horrible to live in

that part was true from 59' onward and is still true even today, they use dumptrucks as buses.

Cuba has always been a shithole under the Communist regime.

China is more capitalist than the U.S, they have zero regulations controlling anything, you could set up a shop in your home in China without needing any approval.

The post-revolution Cuban economy was a total disaster kept afloat only by massive financial support from the Soviet Union (which, post-1963, had no military use for it but kept it going as an irritant to the US)

>Trusting government issued data
>Trusting accounts of politically aligned friends of the regime
I love retarded gringos.

Grenada tried to but America and the rest of the Anglo-Caribbean slapped the shit out of them