The disjunctive of Cuba: capitalism or new socialism

Abstract

Why is the reason for the delay or the barely inexistent advancement of social sciences within the world of ‘historical socialisms’?, is the question the author asks himself when confronting the Cuban case. Out of his text, it can be understood that the answer should be search not within the exercise of the discipline itself, but in a deeper level of it’s theoretical assumptions that lye beyond them. The acumulative model of real socialism was already in crisis by the end of the sixties, yet the countries under this regime pursuing its aplication, mixing up –once again- the interests of the popular classes with that of the State and those who control it. Cuba isn’t but the last representative of a worn out model of XXth century’s socialism, that denies historical evidence.