The communist party of Cuba in the analysis of the new constitution.

Thesis for the debate

Abstract

The role of the communist, worker or progressive parties in the conduction of known socialist projects has been one of the least treated topics in contemporary social sciences since the time of Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg; still less its organic relationship with the constitutional order and the asymmetries that are created between its assumed role and the sovereign power of the people based on the republican principles of democracy. The purpose of this essay is to assess the manifestation of the above issues in the Cuban reality and the ways for their improvement from a multidimensional treatment of the culture of socialist power. The qualitative methodology used privileges the triangulation of different sources present in the academy and social networks that have dealt with the matter regarding the national debate on the content of the new Socialist Constitution approved in 2019. This has allowed the contextualization of the scientific problem in its various edges as well as the manifestations of its functioning in the political reality of the country, its positive achievements and asymmetries. It is concluded that the studies on the subject are fragmented and with important omissions, the stereotyped practices that have been inherited by tradition about the role of communist parties in societies and the need to carry out true scientific exercises that allow the improvement of the leadership system. party policy without extemporaneous dogmas or fossilized visions that prevent the development of a new culture of power that is increasingly democratic and essentially popular.