A Brief Account of the Destruction of Pre-revolutionary Cuba by the Capitalist System

Rémy Herrera

A chapter in Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism, 2025, vol. 40, pp 55-64 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: We would like to show here not only how capitalism was fundamental in the structuring of the Cuban economy and society but also how violent this influence was during the pre-revolutionary history of this country. Destruction of Amerindian societies and annihilation of the native populations, massive deportations and over-exploitation of African slaves in sugar cultivation, misery of small farmers of Spanish origin and rural exodus, harsh living and working conditions of sugar proletarians, waves of emigration, bloody wars of independence, US military occupations, ferocious repressions of popular revolts and succession of dictatorships, confinement in economic underdevelopment, political submission, social inequalities and cultural alienation, such was the fate that capitalism reserved for the people of Cuba before the victory of their Socialist Revolution.

Keywords: Cuba; capitalism; slavery; sugar production; mono-export specialization; US imperialism; high finance; neocolonialism; pre-revolutionary period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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