Understanding Cuba’s people’s democracy
Direct and indirect elections, people’s assemblies, mass organizations, and the Party
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I have written a number of commentaries on Cuba’s system of people’s democracy, which I view as more advanced than representative democracy. People’s democracy is characterized by direct and indirect elections of delegates and deputies to people’s assemblies, which constitute the highest political and legal authorities from the local community to the nation; by mass organizations of workers, farmers, women, students, and neighborhoods, functioning from the local to the national; and by a vanguard political party that leads and exhorts but does not have the authority to decide. People’s democracy grants the people the power to frame the public debate, and it therefore generates political stability.
I have reworked and synthesized my various commentaries on Cuba since June 2021 into a single book, which I am publishing jointly with Barnes and Noble Press. The 166-page book can be purchased in digital form for $5 at Barnes and Noble Press.
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