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The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development

By Henry Veltmeyer , Mark Rushton

Book information

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Year
2013
ISBN
1608462447, 9781608462445
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3295598 bytes)
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition
Reprint
Pages
368\382
Time added
2014-11-09 09:09:49

Description

This re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of socialist humanism engages unresolved issues in this political tradition and challenges 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. The authors argue that socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century, and that these unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions—a 'near-perfect storm'—that still threaten its evolution.

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