Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press in keeping with the objectives of socialist society.
Cuba's 1976 constitution guarantees freedom of speech, with the caveat that such speech must be "in keeping with the objectives of socialist society".
Socialists want their objective to be achieved by reconstruction of the existing political system (especially capitalist) through peaceful and democratic means, whereas communists want to resort to extreme force and revolution.
The armed Basque separatist group ETA threatened to attack the offices of the governing Popular Party and the opposition Socialists, saying they are "military objectives".
Instead of actively pursuing the goal of government running large industries, a democratic socialist focuses on far less radical objectives, like making the welfare state more generous and limiting the influence of money on politics.
Some of the new union leaders were confessed socialists, anxious to use political as well as economic power to secure their objectives, and a number of socialist organizations emerged between 1880 and 1900 all conscious, at least intermittently, that, whatever their differences, they were part of a "labour movement".
There was tension in the air when Fidel Castro mounted the rostrum after Bourguiba, and immediately announced that Cuba was "a Socialist Marxist-Leninist country whose final objective is communism".
Where the guiding political doctrine was Socialist or, after 1917, Communist, the objective was to gain control over the state in order to use its growing interventionist capacities for fundamental social transformation in the interest of workers.
"The Socialist party did not achieve its stated objectives, and I take full political and personal responsibility," Costa told supporters in the capital.
According to Kotkin (1995), the building of the new socialist cities served, apart from the geopolitical, demographic and industrial objectives, as a micro political process of creating the new man.
