Is the Cuban revolution "good"? The answer to that question does not depend on "facts" alone. It depends also on the meaning we attach to the facts and on our willingness to emphasize one value at the expense of another. We make these choices, these decisions, in our daily lives. Revolutions, in this sense, are no diiferent. What is different is that they highlight the significance of choices made, and they increase the stakes of our political choices. One way to view a revolution is as an investment in politics in order to transform the weight and the meaning of large chunks of our nonpolitical lives, to change the choices we make, our way of making them and their significance.