Machiavelli Essay Research Paper When you speak

Machiavelli Essay, Research Paper

When you speak of Fidel Castro, what do you speak of. The Cuban Leader is not

your everyday leader. To fully understand Fidel Castro you must have a firm

foundation with which to work from. I will explore the political ideology of

Fidel Castro by explaining what is in an ideology, Fidel Castro.s background,

and his political position both before the Cuban revolution and presently. An

ideology is a number of action-oriented, materialistic, popular, and simplistic

political theories that were originally developed as an accommodation to the

social and economic conditions created by the Industrial Revolution (Baradat

13). The action can be broken into a five-part definition for idealistic

purposes. To begin, the term ideology can be used in many contexts, but unless

otherwise specified it is proper to give it a political meaning. All ideologies

provide an interpretation of the present and a view of the desired future. This

desirable future is thought to be attainable in a single lifetime. Each ideology

includes a list of specific steps that can be taken to accomplish its goals.

Ideologies are oriented towards the masses, and finally, ideologies are simply

stated and presented in motivational terms. In speaking of Fidel Castro and his

ideologies I will apply these five definitional segments. Many theorists believe

Cuban Leader Fidel Castro was directed in his political thought from an early

age. He was born on May 13, 1927, on his families sugar plantation in the town

of Mayari, Cuba. As a boy, Castro worked on the family plantation, and at age 6

was able to persuade his parents to send him to school. He attended two Jesuit

institutions, eventually entering a Jesuit preparatory school; a member of the

Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and

devoted to missionary and educational work. Both through his first hand look at

the oppression of individuals and the importance of education help to shape

Fidel Castro, and differentiate what was right and wrong. Three years later, in

1945 Castro attended the University of Havana Faculty of Law. That same year he

was so fed up with the oppressed working class that he unionized the workers of

his father.s plantation to fight for a voice in exercising their rights. After

graduation from Law School in 1950 be began practicing in Havana with two

partners. As a lawyer he devoted himself to helping the poor. Although very

active in politics throughout his college career, it was in 1952 that Castro

first attempted to run for national politics. Just as Castro intended to

campaign for a parliamentary seat, General Fuligenico Batista overthrew the

government of President Carlos Prio Socarras in a coup and cancelled the

election. Trying to oppose the military dictatorship through peaceful means and

failing led Castro to head an armed attack of 165 men, calling themselves the

26th of July Revolutionary Movement. Failing completely through his violent

attack, Castro and his brother Raul were taken prisoner until May 1955. After

much recruiting, on New Year.s Day in 1959 he succeeded in overthrowing the

dictatorship of Batista. It was one week later that the United States officially

recognized Castro.s new government. It was shortly after this time in 1961,

and now in power, that Fidel Castro announced to the world that he was a Marxist

.Leninist and would remain so until the last day of his life. The question

that arises when you first hear this is what is a Marxist-Leninist ideology and

does Fidel Castro qualify to call himself such a thinker. Many theorists argue

that Fidel Castro isn.t attached to any particular ideology. His only goal is

survival and power. Strong evidence pointing to this fact is that Fidel Castro

survived the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union. In the case of Castro,

however, if you dig enough in search for an underlying ideology, you will find

that his thought and action is closer to that of a Marxist- Leninist than to any

other ideology. It is for certain that he was a young revolutionist in his

preliminary political life. Remember it was he who led the country of Cuba into

a revolution against the political power, President Batista, in 1959, believing

that change would only happen if he burnt down the political system and rebuilt

on its ashes. After the rebellion was over the entire population had to be

radicalized, attitudes changed, traditions destroyed, the popular support

maintained and deepened, viable organizations and institutions created, and

social justice distributed. Fidel Castro in 1967, .The most difficult task was

not exactly the overthrowing of Batista. the most difficult is the one that we

are engaged in today: the task of building a new country on the basis of an

underdeveloped economy; the task of creating a new conscious, an new man.

(Suthe

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