Critique of the Soviet Manual of Political Economy

Helen Yaffe

Chapter 9 in Che Guevara, 2009, pp 233-256 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara arrived in Cuba as a revolutionary medic. Within nine years he had become a military commander, a political leader, an industrialist, a banker, a minister, an economist, a diplomat and a national hero in a foreign land. As a member of the Cuban government for five years, Guevara had helped to construct the scaffolding of a new society. Despite the ostensible and public break from the Cuban Revolution with his departure in 1965, he remained intimately tied to both the Revolution and the theoretical challenge it embodied.1 Between 1965 and 1966, he made his most important contribution to socialist theory with his critical notes on the Soviet Manual of Political Economy.2 The notes were smuggled back into Cuba by Aleida March, Guevara’s wife who went on a clandestine visit to see him overseas and who passed them on to Orlando Borrego Díaz, Guevara’s young deputy since La Cabana in January 1959. For 40 years Borrego kept them under lock and key, out of sight of scholars, political leaders, historians and companeros alike. What was it about these notes which made them so contentious or controversial that it was necessary to deprive the world of their contents for four decades?

Keywords: Political Economy; Socialist Country; Material Incentive; Moral Incentive; Monopoly Capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23387-4_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230233874

DOI: 10.1057/9780230233874_9

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().