Cuban Revolution: Its Practice and Guiding Ideology The Cuban revolution has undergone a longstanding and tough struggle and possesses the deeply rooted groundwork. Fidel Castro successfully combined Cuban revolutionary and patriot Jose Marti’s ideology with Marxism, which laid a solid base for Cuba’s revolutionary ideology. With the firm guidance of the ideology, the Cuban people determinedly resolve to defend the dignity of life and the socialist cause in the face of relentless pressure.