Grady Ross Daugherty

In “Cuba and the Incapacity of State Socialism to Change and Renew Itself,”, Pedro Campos and Armando Chaguaceda argue that “state socialism” (ownership and administration of all the instruments of production by the socialist state) is an economic system which springs primarily from the brain and character of Joseph Stalin.

The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) is in the process of “updating” the Cuban model of socialism. An important question should be examined: What, with regard to updating the model, is the proper role of the small entrepreneurial class, the small bourgeoisie?