Compiled by M.V. Rodden

IS CUBA SOCIALIST?

Debate and discussion on various views of Cuba

Questions:

· Is Cuba Socialist?

· To what degree do aspects of capitalism exist in Cuba?

· Is their a "ruling elite"?

· Is Cuba "democratic"?

· What is meant by "Deformed worker's states" and is Cuba one?

· What is "State Capitalism" and can the term be applied to Cuba?

· Is the Cuban Communist Party Revisionist?

· What line should be taken on Cuba?

Note: Please try to read at least one writing from each of the following categories:

No:

1) Cuban "socialism" adopts the Soviet state-capitalist model - http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/12cCuba1970s.html

2) Did Castro steer Cuba towards socialism in the late 1980s? - http://home.flash.net/~comvoice/11cCuba1980s.html

3) Cuba Today - Argues it's a deformed workers state in response to DSP article - http://www.worldsocialist-cwi.org/publications/Cuba/cu1.html

4) CUBA AND THE DEFORMED WORKERS STATES - http://www.bolshevik.org/history/Mb8.html#states

5) Criteria to define the character of Cuban social-economic formation - http://www.marxismalive.org/airoldi3ing.html

YES:

1) The Cuban Revolution and Its Leadership: A Criticism of Peter Taaffe's Pamphlet `Cuba: Analysis of the Revolution' - http://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/19990401.htm

2) Shameful dogma: Why 'Socialist Party' attacks socialist Cuba - http://www.ratb.org.uk/frfi/158_dogma.html

3) Cuban revolution - explores the dogma of the "state capitalist" theory - http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm

4) Democracy in Cuba - http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/democracy_in_cuba.htm

NEUTRAL:

1. Debate between the IWL and the Cuban Delegation - A live debate in Cuba, Goes either way. - http://www.marxismalive.org/dossiercuba3ing.html

Reference:

1. THE CUBAN POLITICAL AND ELECTORAL SYSTEM - http://myweb.cableone.net/danlouis/cuban_elections.htm