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>From new Cuba blog "Cuba's Socialist Renewal" http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com To sign up as a follower or to receive email updates click on link above [I'd like to invite readers of this blog to check out a new blog, "Venezuela: Translating the Revolution" <http://www.venezuelatranslatingtherevolution.blogspot.com/> by Owen Richards, a sister blog to "Cuba's Socialist Renewal".] Alongside and intersecting with the grassroots debates on the Draft Economic and Social Policy Guidelines and the informal debate, there is a rich discussion and debate taking place among Cuban intellectuals and academic specialists from a variety of disciplines and a spectrum of political perspectives within the broad camp of the Revolution. The Cuban magazine Temas (Themes) is one publication that carries contributions to this debate among Cuba's revolutionary intelligencia. The demise of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s precipitated not only the Special Period economic crisis in Cuba, but also a flourishing of Cuban social sciences in the Marxist tradition.With the Soviet manuals on "Marxism-Leninism" discredited, a revival of genuine Marxism was spurred by both the ideological challenge presented by the demise of Soviet Stalinism and concrete investigations into the changes taking place in Cuban society as the Special Period unfolded. Camila Piñero Harnecker holds a degree in sustainable development from the University of Berkeley, California. She is a professor at the Centre for Studies on the Cuban Economy at Havana University, and her works have been published both in Cuba and outside the island. She is also, incidently, the daughter of Chilean-Cuban journalist and author Marta Harnecker (who now lives in Venezuela) and he late husband, Manuel "Red Beard" Piñero, who headed revolutionary Cuba's state security and intelligence service for many years. Here is a slightly abridged and incomplete translation of one of her recent contributions to the discussion on Cuba's economic reforms. I'll let you know when the translation is completed. How to reassert the principle "to each according to their work" without money-making becoming the main or sole motivation to work? Here, Piñero Harnercker's concerns echo those of Che Guevara in the 1960s. Today, revolutionary Cuba returns to the classic debate over material vs. moral incentives four decades on with the Soviet Union itself long gone but its presence still felt in many of the Revolution's concepts, structures, methods and mentalities, and with the PCC leadership acknowledging certain idealistic errors. Rather than the victory of one side over the other in this decades-old debate, the new Cuban "model" of socialist development that is emerging will be a synthesis of the valid contributions of both sides. Link to translation: http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/01/translation-cuba-needs-changes.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
