The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development

by Henry Veltmeyer, Mark Rushton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462445
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	02/23/2013
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences , #36
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Henry Veltmeyer Ph.D. (1976) is professor of international development studies at Saint Mary's University. He has published extensively on the political economy of international development and Latin America.

Mark Rushton: PhD (2010), in Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, is a freelance consultant, copyeditor, academic translator and author, with a specialist interest in Cuba and the development implications of information technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Acronyms
List of Tables and Figures

1. Introduction

THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMATIC
2. Human development, capitalism and socialism
3. Human development in practice
4. Socialism, human development and the cuban revolution

DIMENSIONS OF SOCIALIST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
5. Socialism as revolutionary consciousness: Dynamics of a cultural revolution
6. Human development as social welfare
7. The equality predicament of socialist humanism
8. Socialist human development as freedom
9. In solidarity: A matter of fundamental principle

SOCIALISM IN A CAPITALIST WORLD
10. Human development in the era of globalization
11. Continuity and change: Revolution for A new millennium
12. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index