The conflict “had expanded from a class war to a much larger civilizational conflict, demanding not just economic equality, but social, cultural, and even spiritual transformation.” There, Rubio summed up the political framework behind the Cuba report. Eighteen months later, the same instrument has been extended to left-wing and anti-war organizations within the United States. In April 1959 he declared in the United States: “I have stated in a clear and definite manner that we are not communists.” A genuine revolutionary movement in the United States, moreover, would have threatened Havana and Moscow no less than Washington.