Cuba 1959: Roads Chosen and Not Chosen
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-24

A lecture by Samuel Farber arguing that the Soviet-style model of socialism from above was the result of choices made by the leaders of the Cuban Revolution conditioned by constraints like US imperialism and a semi-developed economy, and the transition from a political revolution to a social one before and after 1959, including the internal factors that shaped that period.

This visit was part of an eight-part series titled “RENEWING SOCIALISM FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM AND HOW TO GET THERE”.

This event was co-sponsored by Global Studies and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) at UW-Madison.

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He has written numerous books and articles on Cuba including Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960, and most recently, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006. He is currently working on a book on Cuba since the 1959 Revolution for Haymarket Press. He is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY.)