Comparing The Mexican And The Cuban Revolution

Vladimir Lenin once said, “You cannot make a Revolution in white gloves”, meaning that creating a Revolution is not an easy task. Revolutionaries have to be ready to get their hands dirty to fix a problem, in order to start seeing a change in the future. All throughout history we have seen many revolutions come about around the world. Two Revolutions that clearly exemplified the meaning of having to work hard for a revolution (what Vladimir Lenin said) are both the Mexican and the Cuban Revolution. The Mexican Revolution came about when the working class of Mexico started to question the administration of Porfirio Diaz. On the same note the Cuban Revolution became a Revolution because the Cuban society wanted to overthrow the governments administration

Since the lower classes of a society is usually the working class they are almost always treated viciously by the hard work and the discrimination that is always brought toward them. This makes them feel and know when something in the society is incorrect if they are the ones that are having horrible repercussions for it. A Revolution consists of an act of intransigence, symbolic indigeneity, and an administration that a society is able to follow. An act of intransigence is an action that the lower class does to the higher class to show them that they will not allow themselves to be pushed around any longer. These acts of intransigence can be violent or they can be peaceful depending on the administration of the Revolution. “Well, revolutions are acts of force. You know, it's when a lot of us celebrate the - it's an insurgency of people that you tend to forget, actually, the tough realities of what revolutions actually are over the centuries...” (NPR). The acts of intransigence that are shown in a Revolution are what make a Revolution, a Revolution. Sometimes these acts can be

An act of transience and a symbolic indignity that the Cuban Revolution was able to show was when they were able to resist against John F. Kennedy. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. During the Cuban Revolution, John F. Kennedy approved in the invasion of Cuba also known as the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. When Fidel Castro found out that the United States of America was planning on invading Cuba, “Fidel Castro had ordered defences like these to be built at key points throughout the island - an invasion was widely expected, but no-one had any idea where it was going to land.” (Voss, 2011). When the United States army was defeated by the Cubans, all that was left for them to do was to come back home and leave Cuba alone. “... the clumsy Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba … became a humiliating low point of Kennedy’s presidency” (Sullivan/ Smith, 2016). This was an act of transience and a symbolic indiginety in favor of the Cuban Revolution. The Cubans were able to