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Capitalist Dependency and Socialist Dependency: The Case of Cuba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert A. Packenham
Robert A. Packenham*
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Stanford University
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Is Socialism a means to eliminate or reduce dependency and its alleged concomitants? According to a number of authors, including those of the most influential recent approaches to the study of Latin American politics and development, it is. Indeed, for most of these authors socialism is the only desirable or acceptable way to address the problems of dependent capitalism. For them, capitalism is inherently exploitative and repressive; socialism is the only desirable or acceptable path to a more autonomous, egalitarian, free and just society (Cardoso and Faletto, 1979: ix-xxiv, 209-216).

As some of the foregoing implies, and as is obvious to anyone familiar with the literature, for many authors the truth or falsity of this view is not a matter amenable to resolution by anything so mundane as reference to historical experience. For such analysts, this view is true by definition. The analyst using this perspective first “assumes” it to be true and then “demonstrates” that it is true by citing data that support it (Cardoso and Faletto, 1979: x).

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , Spring 1986 , pp. 59 - 92
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Copyright © University of Miami 1986

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