The architects of the self-management schemes had good ideas, but they were not the ones to execute and oversee the self-management (autogestion) project.
The president could rule by fiat, a structure that welcomed a coup d' etat because this alone could change the reins of government in a society that had been substantially depoliticized.
[...] the FLN failed the legions of anticolonial supporters who wanted a role in the creation of a new Algeria. The FLN's charter did not fully support the energy of the people; it was keener to demobilize this enthusiasm. The Third World "nation" did not fully live up to its promise of radical de…
[...] Fanon defended the right of national liberation movements to adopt armed struggle, as the movements would do at Havana's 1966 Tricontinental. His defense, however, was not on tactical or even strategic grounds; he maintained that violence is necessary to wrench a colonized society into freed…
Who would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? What an audacious thought: that those who had been fated to labor without want, now wanted to labor in…
