Club Jacobin

Politics is not the art of the possible. That is diplomacy. I wrote a book on that. The revolutionary politician needs to understand that in order to achieve his objective he has to create a correlation of forces. To build social forces in order to have political strength in order to achieve his objective. You build social power with popular protagonism. The state cannot create what does not exist, but can create the conditions so that the forces are strengthened.

Interesting interview with Marta Harnecker, worth a read.

Yuri Gagarin embraces Fidel Castro during the 1961 commemoration of the Cuban revolution.

costapobre:

themedvedable:

В карибском море по-прежнему неспокойно on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
О берега свободной Кубы
Агрессор поломает зубы!

fight them top hat sharks fiddy, fight em real hard 

Oh my God…! Normally I am on Fidel’s side, automatically & no questions asked, but how can I root against sharks with top-hats and monocles? Crisis!

(Source: old-glory, via pobrecosta-deactivated20111030-)