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The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62160-9

ISBN: 978-3-319-62159-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2017

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Global and Historical Context

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 1 –25

[This chapter provides a historical and global context for understanding the Cuban Revolution and its meaning. It describes the structures of the world-system, the historical development of the world-system, the spectacular ascent of the USA, the role of imperialist policies, and the...
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Chapter 2The Cuban Anti-colonial Revolution

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 27 –41

[This chapter describes the economic structures of Spanish colonialism and the emergence of an anti-colonial revolution. The revolutionary war of independence of 1868–1878 failed to attain its goals, as a result of internal divisions. In the 1880s, José Martí was able to unify the revolution on...
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Chapter 3The Failure of the Cuban Neocolonial Republic

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 43 –75

[This chapter emphasizes the limitations of the Cuban system of representative democracy from the period 1920 to 1951, including its defense of the interests of national and international elites, and its incapacity to provide for the basic needs of the people. It depicts popular movements as...
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Chapter 4The Taking of Power by the People

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 77 –111

[This chapter interprets the triumph of the Cuban Revolution as a consequence of (1) the characteristics of Cuban political culture and (2) the exceptional capacities of Fidel Castro. Cuban political culture was characterized by a belief in heroism and in human possibilities, in spite of the...
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Chapter 5The Cuban Revolutionary Project

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 113 –144

[This chapter describes seven stages in the development of the Cuban revolutionary project: national liberation, 1959–1961; Cuban socialism based on industrial development, 1961–1965; Cuban socialism based on sugar exportation, 1966–1970; institutionalization, 1970–1985; rectification of errors,...
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Chapter 6The Structural Crisis of the Neocolonial World-System

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 145 –178

[This chapter provides an analysis of the sustained structural crisis of the world-system, which showed its first symptoms in the 1970s, and which has resulted from the fact that the world-system has reached the geographical limits of the earth. It notes the symptoms of the crisis: the...
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Chapter 7The Third World Project of National and Social Liberation

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 179 –208

[This chapter reviews the Third World project of the national and social liberation of the period 1946 to 1979, formulated by the giants of the anti-colonial struggles of the Third World. It analyzes the derailing of the Third World project, in conjunction with the imposition of the neoliberal...
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Chapter 8Socialism for the Twenty-First Century

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 209 –231

[Four Latin American nations have rejected not only neoliberalism and US imperialism, but also capitalism, and they are seeking to construct post-capitalist societies evolving in practice toward socialism. Charismatic leaders have played a principal role in the socialist projection: Hugo Chávez...
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Chapter 9Renewing the Historic Quest for Socialism

McKelvey, Charles

Pages: 233 –249

[This chapter reflects on the meaning of justice, democracy, and sustainability. It formulates the twelve characteristics of socialism, based on observation of real socialism in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. The most important characteristic is...

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