Reddit reviews People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series)

This is incorrect. The Communist Party actually doesn't campaign in elections and isn't allowed to. Elections in Cuba are very community based and participatory.

There's a great JSTOR article and book about this

People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series)

What is this "democracy" of which you speak? Do you really want to see Cuba adopt the ridiculous system of government that they have in the USA, with two identical-but-one's-slightly-less-insane political parties who hand over control to another set of 1%-ers every four or eight years? Where passing legislation under the bombardment of lobbyists, multinationals, the addition of stupid "riders" to bills that pervert the legislative process, ad nauseum?

Perhaps take some time to really understand Cuba's system of elections. All political parties - the Communist Party included - is banned from fielding candidates. Each neighbourhood elects representatives to serve at the municipal, provincial and state levels. Lots of other mechanisms for ensuring diversity of candidates... for those who want to build a better Cuba. Those who just want to tear things down, watch 'em burn, they'll never earn the respect of their neighbours to be able to run as candidates... but being opposed to the system will guarantee they have a western media camera in their face to broadcast their dissatisfaction with the evil communists who won't let 'em make a buck. A very good book on the subject is Peter Roman's People Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Power-Experience-Representative-Perspective/dp/0742525651

Here's a whole book about it if you're really interested. Ultimately though, it's not that interesting to me because freedom presumes economic equality which makes the question of legal structures at best a secondary concern to be crafted through the contingencies of class struggle. All the complications of the US state are merely a distraction from the basic structure: the singular freedom for the proletariat to work or die and the subordination of everything else to that.

The National People's Assembly hold all legislative power and ability to appoint individuals such as Fidel Castro to executive positions . In fact, academia within journals argue Cuba is one of, if not the best, the most democratic nations.

I recommend the following book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0742525651/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 .