Organisation, Socialist Development and Class Power

Arthur MacEwan

Chapter 17 in Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba, 1981, pp 123-131 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The poor performance of the Cuban economy during the 1960s has given impetus to a wide set of explanations and serious criticisms of the Cuban strategy, its theory and practice. Some analysts have taken the experience of those years as evidence for the impossibility of combining economic growth and economic equality. From this perspective, the Cuban leaders are viewed as being too idealistic and unrealistic in their attempt to achieve economic expansion through an emphasis on moral incentives. Other critics explain the poor performance in the 1960s as a consequence of bureaucratic control and argue that the Cuban leadership had been remiss in centralising authority so thoroughly. This argument sees the labour mobilisations, the role of the army in production campaigns and the general military or campaign atmosphere of the late 1960s as the vain efforts to overcome the deficiencies of bureaucratic misorganisation.

Keywords: Socialist Development; Labour Mobilisation; Capitalist Society; Capitalist Development; Class Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05271-4_17

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