under "revolutionary" rhetoric. This congress ratified Cuba's new "Economic Planning and Management System," sanctifying "the profitability criterion" as the country's highest principle. It also featured a long self-criticism by Castro for not coming around to the Soviet's way of thinking sooner, a "self-criticism" in which he tries to justify Cuba's present situation and bows down so low before the New Czars that it serves as an outstanding indication of Cuba's present neocolonial status, "Had we been humbler, had we not had excessive self-esteem," Castro explained, "we would have been able to understand that revolutionary theory was not sufficiently developed in our country and that we actually lacked profound economists and scientists of Marxism to make really significant contributions to the theory and practice of building socialism..." (Castro's speeches and other congress documents can be found in Granma, the official Cuban publication.) [1] Humble words indeed from the Cuban leadership who, not that many years ago, were portraying themselves as the lighthouse of revolution for the Third World and elsewhere, in contrast to what they considered the "conservatism" of the revisionists, and what they slandered as the "dogmatism" of the genuine Marxist-Leninists. In the 1960s the Cuban leadership had actually become very humble in serving as a Soviet political errand boy whenever it was necessary to pay the rent -- for instance, by attacking China and Mao Tsetung in 1966, backing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and so on. But at that time the Cubans did try to maintain