Critical currents in Cuban political culture

On gender, race, Marx, and elections

     In an anthology on political culture published by the University of Havana in 2023, Carlos Cabrera Rodríguez describes the political culture of a nation as the concentrated expression of the entire set of actions, objectives, and functions of the political system, serving as a fundamental link in the political process. 

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Cuban political culture

     I would maintain that the Cuban political culture is formed by the reasoning and ideology tied to a revolutionary political practice.  And I see four dimensions of the Cuban political culture. 

     First, there is the political process of people’s democracy, consisting of direct and indirect elections that are central to its democratic character; neighborhood nomination assemblies that ground the political process in local spaces; people’s assemblies with legal political authority at national and municipal levels; mass organizations that strengthen the particip…