Constituting Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Examining Cuba&apos;s 2019 Constitution

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[1] Aldama de Pino, Miguel Ángel, and Casañas Díaz, Mirta (2018) Filosofía de la Educación de Fidel Castro (1945-1981). Havana: Editorial Universitaria Félix Varela.

[2] August, Arnold (2013) Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion. London: Zed Books.

[3] Azzellini, Dario (2013) “The communal state: Communal councils, communes, and workplace democracy”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(2): 25-30.

[4] Bellamy Foster, John (2010) “Foreword” [to special issues on Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes, by Marta Harnecker], Monthly Review, 62(3): iii-xvii.

[5] Bishop, Maurice (1983) Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and its Overthrow, 1979-1983. New York: Pathfinder Press.

[6] Burbach, Roger, Fox, Michael, and Fuentes, Federico (2013a) “Cuba: ‘Updating’ Twentieth-Century Socialism”, in Roger Burbach, Michael Fox and Federico Fuentes, Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism. London: Zed Books, 143-51.

[7] Burbach, Roger, Fox, Michael, and Fuentes, Federico (2013b). Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism. London: Zed Books.

[8] Campbell, Al (2018) “Cuba's co-operative sector and the project of deep reforms', in Sonja Novković and Henry Veltmeye (eds), Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba: An Agenda for Democratic Social Change. Leiden: Brill, 160-78.

[9] Campbell, Al (2021) “Evaluating against a multi-dimensional economic goal: A sustainable and prosperous socialism”, International Journal of Cuban Studies, 13(1): 105-26.

[10] Carnoy, Martin, Gove, Amber, and Marshall, Jeffery (2007) Cuba's Academic Advantage: Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

[11] Castro Ruz, Fidel (1960). “Discurso en el Acto con los Empleados del Comercio”, Havana, 5 June.

[12] Ciccariello-Maher, George (2016) Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela. London: Verso.

[13] Cole, Mike (2012) “Twenty-first-century socialism and education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: An alternative to the neoliberal model”, in Ravi Kumar (ed.), Education and the Reproduction of Capital: Neoliberal Knowledge and Counterstrategies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 189-208.

[14] Constitute Project (2019) Cuba's Constitution of 2019. Available at: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Cuba_2019.pdf?lang=en.

[15] Draper, Hal (1974) “Marx on democratic forms of government”, Socialist Register. Available at: https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5326/2227.

[16] DuRand, Cliff (2018) “Co-operatives in socialist construction”, in Sonja Novković and Henry Veltmeye (eds), Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba: An Agenda for Democratic Social Change. Leiden: Brill, 100-9.

[17] Ellner, Steve (2013) “Just how radical is President Nicolás Maduro”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(2): 45-9.

[18] Engels, Frederich (1880/1972) “Socialism: Utopian and scientific”, in Robert Tucker (ed.), The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 605-39.

[19] Fägerlind, Ingemar, and Saha, Lawrence (1983) “Education and development under capitalism and socialism”, in Fägerlind and Saha, Education and National Development: A Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 195-233.

[20] Faiola, Anthony (2019) “Socialism doesn't work? An emerging middle class of Bolivians would beg to differ”, Washington Post (16 October): A10. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/socialism-doesnt-work-an-emerging-middle-class-of-bolivians-would-beg-to-differ/2019/10/08/3b1cb3ae-e6f6-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html.

[21] Fidler, Richard (2015) “[Review of] Marta Harnecker's A World to Build: New Paths Toward 21st Century Socialism. [(translated by Federico Fuentes). New York: Monthly Review Press]”, Monthly Review, 18 June. Available at: https://mronline.org/2015/06/18/fidler180615-html.

[22] Fitz, Don (2020) Cuban Healthcare: The Ongoing Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press.

[23] Forman, J. (1973) Communism: From Marx's Manifesto to Twentieth-Century Reality. New York: New Viewpoints.

[24] Garcia Batista, Gilberto (ed.) (2002, 2016) Compendio de Pedagogía. Havana: Editorial Pueblo y Educación, 36-44.

[25] Gilbert, Jeremy (2020) Twenty-First Century Socialism. London: Polity Press.

[26] Gill, Timothy (2016) “Whither Venezuelan Bolivarianism?”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 48(4): 367-71.

[27] Ginsburg, Mark, and Garcia Batista, Gilberto (2019) “Reforming education and teacher education in Cuba: Revolución and perfeccionamiento”, in Carlos Ornelas (ed.), Politics of Education in Latin America: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 215-43.

[28] Griffith, Tom, and Williams, Jo (2009) “Mass schooling for socialist transformation in Cuba and Venezuela”, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 7(2): 31-50.

[29] Guevara, Ernesto Che (1973) “Man and socialism in Cuba”, in Bertram Silverman (ed.), Man and Socialism in Cuba: The Great Debate. New York: Atheneum.

[30] Harnecker, Marta (2010) “Twenty-first century socialism: Inventing to avoid mistakes”, translated by Janet Duckworth”, Monthly Review, 62(3): 2-83.

[31] Harnecker, Marta (2013) Conquering a New Popular Hegemony: Marta Henecker on Twenty-First^t Century Socialism. New York: Committees in Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

[32] Harnecker, Marta (2015) A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism (translated by Federico Fuentes). New York: Monthly Review Press.

[33] Hetland, Gabriel (2016) “Chavismo in crisis: To stay in office, the Venezuelan government must address its major weaknesses”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 48(1): 8-11.

[34] Hoogvelt, Ankie (1976) The Sociology of Developing Societies. London: Macmillan.

[35] Howe, Irving (1977/1985) Socialism in America. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanavich.

[36] Hudis, Peter (2020) “What is democratic socialism? What is socialist democracy? Review of ‘True Democracy’ as a Prelude to Communism: the Marx of Democracy by Alexandros Chrysis”, Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 14(1): 105-9.

[37] Lebowitz, Michael (2010) The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development. New York: Monthly Review Press.

[38] Leopold, Bruno (2020) “Karl Marx believed in democracy”, Tribune. Available at: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/10/marx-the-democrat/.

[39] MacDonald, Theodore (1985) Making a New People: Education in Revolutionary Cuba. Vancouver: New Star Books.

[40] Marx, Karl (1871/1972) “The civil war in France”, in R. Tucker (ed.), The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 526-76.

[41] Marx, Karl, and Engels, Frederich (1942) The German Ideology. London: International Publishers.

[42] Marx, Karl, and Engels, Frederich (1848/1983) The Communist Manifesto. London: International Publishers.

[43] Moulian, Tomás (2000) Socialismo del Siglo XXI: La Quinta Via. Santiago: Ed. Lom.

[44] Pearce, Stephanie (2013) “Chávez in the Americas: Increasing autonomy in Latin America and the Caribbean”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(2): 40-4.

[45] Popular Unity Government (1971/2013) “Popular Unity Government: Basic Program”, NACLA: Report on the Americas, 46(3). Available at: https://nacla.org/article/popular-unity-government-basic-program.

[46] Rosen, Fred (2013) “What was created? What remains?”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(2): 22-4.

[47] Ross, Clifton, and Rein, Marcy (2013) “The new socialism: Review of Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-first Century Socialism (by Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, & Federico Fuentes, London, Zed Books, 2013)”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(2): 69-71.

[48] Sustainable Development Index (n.d.) https://www.sustainabledevelopmentindex.org/.

[49] Tablada, Carlos (1989) “Incentive systems”, in Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. Sydney: Pathfinder, 174-201.

[50] Wolff, Richard (2019) Understanding Socialism. New York: Democracy at Work.

[51] Yaffe, Helen (2020) We are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. New Haven: Yale University Press.

[52] Zwerling, Philip, and Martin, Connie (1985) Nicaragua: A New Kind of Revolution. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books.