Socialism in Cuba [antikvár]

preface Brief fides cannot adequately describe the contents of a book, and Socialism in Cuba is no exception. It may therefore be helpful at the outset to tell the reader a little more about what this book tries to do. There are certain problems that are common to all countries which have undergone a socialist revolution—that is to say, where the state power of the bourgeoisie and its domestic and foreign allies has been overthrown, a new government and army representing the interests of the exploited classes have been established, and all or most of the means of production have been transferred from the private to the public sector. Before the revolution, the basic structure and developmental tendencies of the economy and society were determined by international and domestic market forces. If this were to continue after the revolution, a more or less rapid reversion to the status quo ante would take place. But if the revolutionary government is serious about building a new society qualitatively different from the old, the economic