You cannot understand the Cuban Revolution, with its elements from the Age of Enlightenment and modern thought, only from the perspective of Marxistthought, or from the European revolutionary thought.
The main problem is not lingering Marxist habits of thought: a taste for all-in-one explanation, a romantic refusal to temper the desirable with the achievable, a stoical faith that the historical agent of radical change may yet appear, though none is now visible.