People’s Democracy in Cuba
Now available in paperback
My book on Cuba, People’s Democracy in Cuba: A vanguard political-economic system, is available in paperback and eBook through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
People’s Democracy in Cuba. Paperback book. Barnes & Noble. $14.99
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People’s Democracy in Cuba. Paperback book. Amazon. $14.99
People’s Democracy in Cuba. Ebook. Amazon Kindle. $5.00
People’s Democracy in Cuba. Ebook. Barnes & Noble. $5.00
People’s Democracy in Cuba: A vanguard political-economic system stresses Cuba’s form of democracy, characterized by direct and indirect elections of delegates and deputies to people’s assemblies; by mass organizations of workers, farmers, women, students, and neighborhoods; and by a vanguard political party that leads and exhorts but does not have the authority to decide.
The book also explains Cuba's pragmatic approach to its socialist economy, in which the state plays an active role as steward of the economy. Although state ownership of economic enterprises predominates, the essence of the Cuban economic system is not state ownership of economic enterprises but state stewardship of a mixed public/private economy, in accordance with the development plan of the State.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One
The Cuban anti-neocolonial revolution
Colonial Cuba and the Cuban struggle for independence
The Cuban neocolonial republic of 1902 to 1959
The Cuban Revolution and its quest for definitive sovereignty
The Revolution in power: Breaking the neocolonial relation
Cuba seeks good economic relations with her former neocolonial master
Chapter Two
The structures and process of Cuban people’s democracy
On the Cuban system of people’s democracy
Mass organizations
Exceptional Leadership: Fidel Castro Ruz
The Party
Chapter Three
The Constitution of 2019 and its legal and political repercussions
The 2017-2019 Constitutional Process
The continuity of the 2019 Constitution
New legislation based in the 2019 Constitution
A new family code
The Social Communication Law
Chapter Four
The Cuban Economy
Cuba and Latin America
A mixed socialist-oriented economy directed by a people’s state
The need for national consensus with respect to economic policy
The general characteristics of Third World socialist economies today
The Cuban Economic Crisis of 2019-2024
The war economy in Cuba
Problems in the distribution of the food basket
Problems in Transportation
Chronicling the intensification of the blockade
New strategies formulated in the Economic Plan of 2024
A national plan with creative implementation in local communities
Reflections on the socialist economies in today’s world
Chapter Five
Social disturbances during the economic crisis, 2021-2023
July 11, 2021: The revolutionaries retake the streets
They called a protest, and nobody showed
March 17, 2024: A protest amid deepening economic crisis
Chapter Six
The Battle of COVID-19
The Containment of COVID-19 in 2020
The unanticipated third peak in 2021
A nation of science and thought
Conclusion
The meaning of the Cuban Revolution for the world
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