"This book offers an economic history of the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 2019, with a focus on the period that ranges between 2008 and 2018. It aims to explain in a historical perspective the Cuban economic challenges through the category of 'peripheral socialism'. The core of the research...

1. Alienation and freedom : Marx's ontology of social being / Aijaz Ahmad -- 2. Beyond the binaries : notes on Karl Marx's and Rabindranath Tagore's ideas on human capacities and alienation / Himani Bannerji -- 3. The subject as a philosophical problem : reading the prison manuscripts of Antonio...

An overview of the communist collectivization strategy from 1975 to 1979 is briefly described before the author moves on to describe the new economic strategy and the relaxed approach to the formation of cooperatives adopted in Laos since 1979. The study also examines the problems of...