quotes Norman Mailer:
"The New Left was drawing its aesthetic from Cuba. The revolutionary idea which the followers of Castro had induced from their experiences in the hills was that you created the revolution first and learned from it, learned of what your revolution might consist and where it might go out of the intimate truth of the way it presented itself to your experience."
^^^^^ CB: Of course, the Cuban revolution at its insurrectionary phase was an _armed_ struggle, i.e. a definitely violent one. It would not have been won without military discipline, which is as far from anarchist's ethic of individual autonomy and freedom from authority as you can get. After the insurrection, the Cuban revolution was preserved by maintaining military discipline in the population at large, which was an "armed organization of the population' , with block level committees for defense of the revolution , etc. I don't think Mailer's somewhat romantic and petit bourgeois individualist characterization of the Cuban rev is accurate, though he might be giving the New Left's idea of it not his.