Land Rent in Cuba. The Appropriation of the Agricultural Economic Surplus

The essential purpose of this article was to argue, from the theoretical, methodological and sociohistorical praxis points of view, that in the transition period from capitalism to socialism, and possibly in the socialist phase, as the first in the communist mode, capitalist-type rent-seeking relations existed objectively, subordinated as a particular subsystem to the predominant socialist system of production relations. The existing income relations - absolute and differential, the labor and land market - were explained through Marxist theory, as a central link in the agrarian relations developed in the transition to socialism in Cuba. Finally, the most significant contradictions derived from the highly heterogeneous Cuban agricultural system were embroidered.