On Popular Power: The Organization of the Cuban State during the Period of Transition

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The real interest of the epoch of great leaps lies in the fact that the abundance of frag ments of the old, which sometimes accumulate more rapidly than the rudiments (not always immediately discernible) of the new, calls for the ability to discern what is most important in the line or chain of development. History knows moments when the most important thing for the success of the revolution is to heap up as large a quantity of the fragments as possible, i.e., to blow up as many of the old institutions as possible; mo ments arise when enough has been blown up and the next task is to perform the "pro saic" (for the petty-bourgeois revolutionary, the "boring") task of clearing away the fragments; and moments arise when the careful nursing of the rudiments of the new system, which are growing amidst the wreckage on a soil which as yet has been badly cleared of rubble, is the most important thing (Lenin, 1970:675).

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