Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Human Development Problematic Human Development, Capitalism and Socialism in Theory -- Human Development in Practice: Reform(ing Capitalism) Versus (Socialist) Revolution -- Socialism, Human Development and the Cuban Revolution -- Dimensions of Socialist Human Development Socialism as Revolutionary Consciousness: Dynamics of a Revolution -- Human Development as Social Welfare -- Socialist Humanism and the Equality Predicament -- Socialist Human Development as Freedom -- In Solidarity: A Fundamental Principle of Socialist Humanism -- A Socialist Island in a Sea of Capitalism Human Development in an Era of Globalization -- Continuity and Change: The Revolution in the New Millennium -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The book argues that the Cuban Revolution warrants a closer look as a model of socialist human development. A re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from this angle engages unresolved issues in the theory of socialist humanism and the notion of human development popularized by the United Nations Development Programme (i.e., predicated on capitalism). UNDP economists and other agencies of international cooperation for development give a human face to a capitalist development process that is anything but humane. Socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century. The Cuban Revolution's unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions - a 'near-perfect storm' - that still threaten its evolution.