Imperial Russian peasants literally ran around burning and massacring villages of minorities, lynching intellectuals, and literally worshiped the Tsar as Jesus' literal second-in-command on earth. If Lenin and the bolsheviks could turn a backwards backwater barbaric empire into a industrialized powerhouse standing equal to the western capitalists states in a generation, then thinking America is somehow unique and distinct from the Tsarist Empire and all other empires that have and do exist, then I can say nothing else than you are committing the same error of American Exceptionalism that Stalin denounced in 1929.

That is not just a spontaneous evil that emerged from anglo-saxon blood or whatever (as much as people meme it so, which is fine). It is very plainly a product of the same forces who Fidel is talking about misusing science and technology misusing education and public media and education itself. Not that there would be zero anti-intellectualism in a socialist society, but there would be much less without these endless campaigns promoting it paired with extremely poor education standards and accessibility.