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Author Veltmeyer, Henry

Title The Cuban revolution as socialist human development / by Henry Veltmeyer, Mark Rushton
Published Leiden : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 368 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 36
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 36.
Contents Acknowledgements; Acronyms; List of Tables and Figures; 1 Introduction; PART I; THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMATIC; 2 Human Development, Capitalism and Socialism in Theory; 3 Human Development in Practice: Reform(ing Capitalism) Versus (Socialist) Revolution; 4 Socialism, Human Development and the Cuban Revolution; PART II; DIMENSIONS OF SOCIALIST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; 5 Socialism as Revolutionary Consciousness: Dynamics of a Revolution; 6 Human Development as Social Welfare; 7 Socialisy Humanism and the Equality Predicament; 8 Socialist Human Development as Freedom
9 In Solidarity: A Fundamental Principle of Socialist HumanismPART III; A SOCIALIST ISLAND IN A SEA OF CAPITALISM; 10 Human Development in an Era of Globalization; 11 Continuity and Change: The Revolution in the New Millennium; 12 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary The book argues that the Cuban Revolution should be understood as a model of socialist human development. Several particular features of this model were critical to the survival of the Cuban Revolution under conditions of neoliberal globalization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Socialism -- Cuba
Humanism -- Cuba
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Economic policy
Humanism
Social policy
Socialism
SUBJECT Cuba -- Social policy
Cuba -- Economic policy
Subject Cuba
Form Electronic book
Author Rushton, Mark
LC no. 2011035784
ISBN 9004210423
9789004210424
9786613334671
6613334677