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Strategic Socialism. The Updating of Cuba’s Model

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Published/Copyright: May 29, 2023

Abstract

The article deals with the theme of updating of Cuba’s economic model mainly from the perspective of economic and political philosophy and its interdisciplinary contexts. First, it examines the historical origins of Cuba’s socialist model and the subsequent changes after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Second, it analyses the actualization of Cuba’s model in the first two decades of the 21st century, that is, mainly the introduction of market and private ownership to complement planning and public ownership. Third, it explains the codification of these changes in the new constitution. Forth and finally, it focuses on an interpretation of international cooperation both in Latin America, especially within the framework of the two pink tides, and with other partners in global interactions, particularly China. This will make it possible to understand the updated Cuba’s model, which the author has coined strategic socialism with Cuban characteristics.


Corresponding author: Marek Hrubec, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, E-mail:
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Received: 2023-03-06
Accepted: 2023-05-01
Published Online: 2023-05-29
Published in Print: 2023-09-26

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