Theory … “With feet on the Ground”

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Theory … “With feet on the Ground”

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Author(s): Jesús Pastor García Brigos

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2020

Journal: International Journal of Cuban Studies

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: Socialist planning, the state, a vision of the future, the withering away of the state, public power – social power, communist social self-government, the work of governing in a socialist transformation

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It is essential to develop the theory for the socialist transformation as the guide for permanent development, based on experience and accumulated knowledge, to orient our process of socialist socialisation with greater effectiveness and sustainability in current and future conditions. This text reflects on and presents proposals on conceptual elements present in the current Cuban process of transformations, and their expression in the terms that appear in the Island's governing documents, in the first place the new Magna Carta. We focus our attention on state work in socialist planning. Socialist planning is essentially a political task, the content of which is inextricably linked to that of the new type of state. From this comes the importance of the conceptualisation of the state, as an organisation of society and as a specialised political institution - the System of Popular Power - and the conceptualisation of the “work of governing” in a process of socialist transformation.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50005551

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Title: International Journal of Cuban Studies

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN: 1756-3461

ISSN: 1756-347X

Publication date (Print): 1 December 2020

Volume: 12

Issue: 2 ( doiID: 10.13169/intejcubastud.12.issue-2 )

Pages: 176-195

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Keywords: the work of governing in a socialist transformation,the state, a vision of the future,Socialist planning,the withering away of the state,public power – social power,communist social self-government

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[1] Alhama Belamaric, Rafael, García Brigos, Jesús, Lima Ferrer, Roberto and Rafuls Pineda, Daniel (2012) Cuba: Propiedad social y construcción socialista. Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales – Nuevo Milenio.

[2] Álvarez Tabío, Fernando (1985) Comentarios a la Constitución Socialista. Havana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, Ediciones Jurídicas.

[3] ANPP (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) (2003) Constitución de la República de Cuba. http://www.unesco.org/education/edurights/media/docs/1caa9c19bc887fe46ade669d1f5e69c3f0343afc.pdf. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[4] ANPP (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) (2019) Constitución de la República de Cuba. http://www.granma.cu/file/pdf/gaceta/Nueva%20Constituci%C3%B3n%20240%20KB-1.pdf. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[5] Castro, Raúl (1974) “Discurso en la Clausura del Seminario a los Delgados, celebrado en Matanzas el 22 de agosto de 1974”, in Algunas consideraciones sobre el funcionamiento de los órganos locales de Poder Popular. Havana: ANPP, 4–6.

[6] constituteproject.org (n.d.) “Cuba's Constitution of 1976 with amendments through 2002”, https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Cuba_2002.pdf?lang=en. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[7] CPC (Communist Party of Cuba) (2011) Sixth Congress of the Communist Part of Cuba Resolution on the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution. Available at http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/documentos/2011/ing/l160711i.html. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[8] Engels, Frederick (1878) “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Collected Works, vol. 25. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987, 1–309.

[9] García Brigos, Jesús (1998) Gobernabilidad y Democracia. Los Órganos del Poder Popular. Havana: Ciencias Sociales.

[10] García Brigos, Jesús (2007) Dirigentes, Dirigidos, Socialismo. Havana: Ciencias Sociales.

[11] García Brigos, Jesús (2015) Los Consejos Populares: Origen, evolución y perspectivas. Available at https://www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/b2-img/Libroconsejospopularesactualizado.pdf. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[12] Granma (2016) Congreso histórico. Edición especial, 14 May. Available at http://www.granma.cu/file/pdf/gaceta/congreso%20pcc.pdf. (Accessed Sept. 2020.)

[13] Lebowitz, Michael (2012) The Contradictions of Real Socialism. The Conductor and the Conducted. New York: Monthly Review.

[14] Marx, Karl and Engels, Frederick (1848) “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Collected Works, vol. 6. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984, 477–519.

[15] Mészáros, István (2003) “Un abordaje minucioso, con originalidad y profundo compromiso. Reflexiones y debates a propósito del libro de Isabel Rauber ‘Movimientos sociales y representación política. Articulaciones‘”, Pasado y Presente XXI, Edición Especial Aniversario, V(5), December 2003–January 2004, 3–7.

[16] Puig Meneses, Yaima (2020) “Díaz-Canel: todo lo que hagamos tiene que tener una articulación en el municipio”, Granma, 27 July. Available at http://www.granma.cu/impreso/2020-07-27. (Accessed 01.09.2020.)