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The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development

By Henry Veltmeyer , Mark Rushton

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2011
ISBN
9004210431, 9789004210431
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4203242 bytes)
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition
1st
Pages
368\382
Time added
2014-11-09 09:11:16

Description

The book argues that the Cuban Revolution warrants a closer look as a model of socialist human development. A re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from this angle engages unresolved issues in the theory of socialist humanism and the notion of human development popularized by the United Nations Development Programme (i.e., predicated on capitalism). UNDP economists and other agencies of international cooperation for development give a human face to a capitalist development process that is anything but humane. Socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century. The Cuban Revolution's unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions - a 'near-perfect storm' - that still threaten its evolution.

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