The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development

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The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development is written by Henry Veltmeyer and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004210423 (ISBN 10) and 9789004210424 (ISBN 13).

The book argues that the Cuban Revolution warrants a closer look as a model of socialist human development. A re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from this angle engages unresolved issues in the theory of socialist humanism and the notion of human development popularized by the United Nations Development Programme (i.e., predicated on capitalism). UNDP economists and other agencies of international cooperation for development give a human face to a capitalist development process that is anything but humane. Socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century. The Cuban Revolution's unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions - a 'near-perfect storm' - that still threaten its evolution.