Tag: Fidel Castro

Fanon and Cuba: The Disagreement

We have often discussed the paradox that a thinker as seminal as Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), whose ideas...

Arendt and the “Other America”

But that is the great romantic tradition of the 19th century—that of the dungeon, the absence, the...

The (Castroist) Ruralization of Havana (Part II)

1968, Year of Ruralization For Castro’s rural mentality, if the countryside is the focus of revolutionary economic development,...

The (Castroist) Ruralization of Havana (Part I)

Havana’s urban ruin is no accident. The more than sixty years of abandonment of an entire city...