PART – 5

Che Guevara organized and directed the Instituto National de la Reforma Agraria to administer the new Cuban agrarian laws expropriating the large land holders; ran its Department of Industries; was appointed President of the National Bank of Cuba; forced non-communist out of the government and key posts and acting obstinately against the advise of two eminent French Marxist economists who were called in by Fidel Castro and who wanted Che Guevara to advance much more slowly. He pushed the Cuban economy so fast into total Communism, and into crop and production diversification, that he temporarily ruined it.

In 1959 he married Aledia March and together they visited Egypt, India, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Yugoslavia. In February 1960 as the Cuban Minister for Industry he signed a trade pact with the USSR, which freed the Cuban sugar industry from dependence on the US market.

In 1960 Guevara visited China and the Soviet Union. On his return he wrote two books Guerrilla Warfare and Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War. In these books he argued that it was possible to export Cuba's revolution to other South American countries.
Che Guevara served as the Cuban Minister for Industries from 1961 to 1965.Also at this time, he glorified his own kind of communist philosophy, published later in the Socialism and Man in Cuba :" Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity."

He was moving away from "Moscow", towards Mao, and beyond into what is essentially the old idealistic, Anarchism. His formal breach with the Soviet Communist came in February 1965 when, addressing the Organization for Afro-Asian Solidarity at Algiers Che Guevara charged the USSR with being a "tacit accomplice of imperialism" by not trading exclusively with the Communist countries and by not giving underdeveloped socialist countries aid without any return.

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