Larry Catá Backer

Cuba's Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about ideology in the contemporary world. Ideology serves as the foundation that makes it possible for a political community to develop principles through which it can organize itself by reference to a core baseline against which to understand the world around. This book is also more particularly about Cuba. Cuba serves as an ongoing living experiment in the possibilities of molding individuals and the society along the lines suggested by application of a quite explicit set of grounding principles that form an ideology. Fidelity to ideology within a national context makes it possible to create and operate government, society, politics, and economics that are "good" and against which reform can be assessed and applied. The essays that comprise the twelve chapters of this book are drawn from a decade and more of thinking about Cuban ideology and its application in the wake of the passing of Fidel Castro, the charismatic founder of what these essays identify as Caribbean Marxism. The first 7 chapters develop the conceptual framework for understanding Caribbean Marxism as a theory and the challenges that theory poses in the face of reform necessitated by changes in historical condition. Chapters 8 through 12 focus on the concrete manifestation of these abstract structures in several key areas--economic organization of the private sector, trade and investment, and lastly the project of constitutional reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Sir Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949943016
• Artikelnr.: 54467292

Autorenporträt

Larry Catá Backer is a founding member of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics. He holds an appointment at Pennsylvania State University where he serves as the W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). He teaches and researches in the areas of economic globalization, international affairs, global governance, and on Party-State systems, including China and Cuba, and has worked on international instruments for global governance of business enterprises. He teaches courses in Corporate Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on law and religion and constitutional law. He has lectured in South America, Europe and Asia, and has organized graduate programs in Cuba. His work on Cuba includes Cuban corporations and cooperatives, Cuban regional trade policies, the governance structures of the Cuban Communist Party, and the indigenization of Cuban ethnicity. He has written extensively on the development of the theory and practice of the Party-State system in China, including on issues of Chinese constitutionalism and the role of the Chinese Communist Party. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: "Law at the End of the Day."