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A brief account of the destruction of pre-revolutionary Cuba by the capitalist system

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  • Rémy Herrera

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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We would like to show here how capitalism was fundamental in the structuring of the Cuban economy and society, but also how violent this influence was during the pre-revolutionary history of this country. Destruction of Amerindian societies and annihilation of the native populations, massive deportations and overexploitation of African slaves in sugar cultivation, misery of small farmers of Spanish origin and rural exodus, harsh living and working conditions of sugar proletarians, waves of emigration, bloody wars of independence, U.S. military occupations, ferocious repressions of popular revolts and succession of dictatorships, confinement in economic underdevelopment, political submission, social inequalities and cultural alienation, such was the fate that capitalism reserved for the people of Cuba before the victory of their Socialist Revolution.

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  • Rémy Herrera, 2025. "A brief account of the destruction of pre-revolutionary Cuba by the capitalist system," Post-Print hal-05432509, HAL.
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    1. Al Campbell, 2021. "Imperialism and the Transition to Socialism in Cuba," Research in Political Economy, in: Imperialism and Transitions to Socialism, volume 36, pages 163-178, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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