Book endorsements
The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution, by Charles McKelvey, reflects years of enormous interdisciplinary investigative work as well as constant perseverance in sharing with Cuba’s sons and daughters their eternal joys and perennial difficulties. With a notable personal stamp, the author formulates his own epistemological method with respect to the relation between the horizons of the global North and global South. Analyzing the world-system from the perspective of Wallerstein, he offers his own reflections on how to construct a socialist system in the North.
The author is without doubt a citizen of the world, born in the cradle of the North but adopted son of the South, and possessing a notable concern over the reality of underdevelopment and the advances and problems of the Cuban revolutionary project. In spite of the originality of its conclusions, the book offers interpretations with respect to Cuba, Latin America, and the Third World that coincide with the Cuban thought that has emerged during more than fifty years of constant struggle against imperialism and international capital.
The book treats transcendent themes: the constant quest of Cuba and the underdeveloped countries for social justice in the context of the historic development of structures of domination and the present incapacity of the world elite to confront in a rational form the contradictions of the world-system, turning instead to the generation of violence, uncertainty, vulnerability and insecurity for humanity. The work narrates a story, an incredible story of a revolutionary process, on the basis of which the author projects a positive future for humanity. The dissemination of the book is indispensable for the knowledge and general education of present and future generations.
Gladys Hernández Pedraza
Center for Research on the World Economy
Havana, Cuba
The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution, by Charles McKelvey, reflects years of enormous interdisciplinary investigative work as well as constant perseverance in sharing with Cuba’s sons and daughters their eternal joys and perennial difficulties. With a notable personal stamp, the author formulates his own epistemological method with respect to the relation between the horizons of the global North and global South. Analyzing the world-system from the perspective of Wallerstein, he offers his own reflections on how to construct a socialist system in the North.
The author is without doubt a citizen of the world, born in the cradle of the North but adopted son of the South, and possessing a notable concern over the reality of underdevelopment and the advances and problems of the Cuban revolutionary project. In spite of the originality of its conclusions, the book offers interpretations with respect to Cuba, Latin America, and the Third World that coincide with the Cuban thought that has emerged during more than fifty years of constant struggle against imperialism and international capital.
The book treats transcendent themes: the constant quest of Cuba and the underdeveloped countries for social justice in the context of the historic development of structures of domination and the present incapacity of the world elite to confront in a rational form the contradictions of the world-system, turning instead to the generation of violence, uncertainty, vulnerability and insecurity for humanity. The work narrates a story, an incredible story of a revolutionary process, on the basis of which the author projects a positive future for humanity. The dissemination of the book is indispensable for the knowledge and general education of present and future generations.
Gladys Hernández Pedraza
Center for Research on the World Economy
Havana, Cuba