Revolutionary Workers and Individual Liberties

Analysis of Cuban revolutionary workers' attitudes toward liberties for the revolution's opponents shows that relative political involvement and educational level determine the likelihood that one is politically "authoritarian," not that one is a worker or has grown up in the working-class, or is a Communist or a revolutionary worker. Formal education and political interest relate directly to advocacy of free speech; workers socialized in the middle-class are not more likely than those socialized in the working-class to be "libertarian"; neither support for the Communist, nor greater commitment to the revolution, are related to "authoritarianism."