Castroism

As Castroism erected in Cuba under the leadership of Fidel Castro after the victory of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 Political system is sometimes referred to, which is mainly characterized by an "extremely centralized leadership in a very strong state." The focus of this policy, the person Fidel Castro stands. His speeches were the ideological guideline.

The term, which implies the identification of the Cuban political system with the person of the Supreme Leader, the Cuban leadership has never made ​​even our own.

Ideologically, the political system set up by Castro invoked the tradition of Cuban national hero Jose Marti and the independence movement from 1961 explicitly particular to Marxism -Leninism, stressing at different times quite different principles prevail. Since the health-related assumption of the leadership responsibility by Fidel Castro's younger brother Raul as of July 2006 have observers on the politically significant differences between the decades-long companions toward and use in this context, the terms " Fidelism ", " post- Fidelism " and " Raulismus " while official Cuban sources emphasize the continuity in the political system.

Structurally, the 1959 built in Cuba state institutions and the leadership assumed mass organizations oriented close to the prototype of the developed under Josef Stalin, strongly hierarchical one-party system of the Soviet Union, from the end of World War II until 1989, especially in the real-socialist Central - and Eastern European countries was adapted. The political basis of the Soviet Union was particularly pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early years of the revolution, the Cuban leadership pursued a more independent of Moscow course, the particular involved the direct support of revolutionary guerrilla movements in Latin America and Africa - this policy was then seen by observers as a core element of the " Castroism " and partly with reference to Ernesto Guevara as " Castroism - Guevarism " means.

In Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was considered greatest admirer and most important supporters of the established by the brothers Castro Cuban system.

→ see also Political system in the articles on Cuba