Living ideology in Cuba : socialism in principle and practice / Katherine A. Gordy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordy, Katherine A.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--Cuba.

Socialism.

Political culture--Cuba.

Political culture.

Cuba--Social conditions--1959-1990.

Cuba.

Social conditions.

Cuba--Social conditions--1990-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 284 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In Living Ideology in Cuba, Katherine A. Gordy demonstrates how the Cuban state and its people engage in an ongoing negotiation that produces a "living ideology." In contrast to official slogans and fiats, Cuba's living ideology is a decentralized phenomenon, continually adapting, informing, and responding to daily life, without losing sight of the fundamental principles of socioeconomic equality, unified leadership, and inclusive nationalism. Tracing Cuba's ideological history, Gordy first looks at the ways in which the 19th century wars of independence and the 1959 revolution were used as the basis for both challenging and legitimizing Cuban socialism. Following the embrace of a socialist ideology in the 1960s, state policies of the 1970s became more accommodating of market imperatives, while still framing policies in terms of principles articulated by Che Guevara and Karl Marx. In the 1990s, the Cuban people themselves pushed back against free market economic reforms, reasserting the value of socioeconomic equality. Gordy also examines ideological debates among intellectuals, from the controversy sparked by Fidel Castro's "Words to the Intellectuals" speech to the demand in the 1990s for a separation between academia and the state-not to safeguard academia from politics, but to ensure that academics as such could contribute to the political dialogue. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : spheres and principles : theorizing Cuban socialism

Whose revolution? : making ideology, making history

Words and intellectuals : cultural production in revolutionary times

What would Che say? : making the market socialist

Political unity and spheres of difference : social scientists and censorship in the 1990s

"Sales + economy + efficiency = revolution?"

Conclusion : another view of ideology : Cuba and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472072613

0472072617

9780472052615

0472052616

9780472121021

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.7327764

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