Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism
Against the backdrop of the intensification of the global climate crisis and the issue of resource scarcity, the fresh supply chain is facing significant governance challenges in achieving sustainable development due to its high loss rate and high carbon emissions. Existing research focuses on cold...
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| description | Against the backdrop of the intensification of the global climate crisis and the issue of resource scarcity, the fresh supply chain is facing significant governance challenges in achieving sustainable development due to its high loss rate and high carbon emissions. Existing research focuses on cold chain technology optimization or local link innovation. However, it struggles to break through the shackles of a linear economy dominated by capital logic and lacks theoretical criticism of systemic metabolic imbalance. Based on Marx’s “metabolic fracture” theory, this paper reveals how capital-logic alienation drives metabolic crises in Cuba’s fresh supply chain and environmental pollution after the victory of the Cuban revolution and before the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as the metabolic crisis caused by the alienation of capital logic and the exchange of natural and social materials. Following the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Cuban model of sustainable development was explored as a means of repairing the metabolic fracture between humanity and nature, offering another possibility for developing countries to address this issue. Integrating cybernetic technical means enables the construction of a governance path with both theoretical depth and practical direction. First of all, from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism, this paper deeply reveals the characteristics of Cuba’s fresh supply chain and provides the author with the inventory management mode and macro basis with the control theory as the technical means. Secondly, based on the H∞ control theory, the switching control model integrating decentralized and combined inventory is innovatively designed, and the linear matrix inequality method is used to construct the demand fluctuation suppression mechanism, which significantly reduces the bullwhip effect; Thirdly, the dynamic correlation function between fresh-keeping efforts and supply chain profits is established to quantitatively verify the Pareto improvement space of supplier retailer revenue improvement under collaborative inventory mode; Finally, the governance framework of “political-ecological supply chain” is proposed to realize metabolic repair from three dimensions: the closed-loop system of agricultural products based on circular economy reconstructs the material flow, the precise inventory management under the support of digital twin technology optimizes the energy exchange, and the ecological compensation mechanism led by community cooperatives reconciles the value distribution. Research shows that sustainable transformation needs to go beyond technical instrumentalism, and promote the rebalancing of the supply chain metabolic process and natural ecosystem through the adjustment of production relations (such as the redistribution of land public ownership enabling resources) and the reconstruction of ecological ethics (such as the intervention of demand side behavior). The main achievements of this paper provide paradigm innovation for the interdisciplinary application of Marxist theory in the field of supply chain management and also offer a practical reference for developing countries to repair metabolic fractures and achieve sustainable development. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-95dd2f66ebdd454fb59fae1506bd22e32025-08-20T02:44:47ZengElsevierSustainable Futures2666-18882025-12-011010078710.1016/j.sftr.2025.100787Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolismLihua Hu0Chengjiu Wang1Ping He2School of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, ChinaSchool of Marxism, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Corresponding authors.College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China; Corresponding authors.Against the backdrop of the intensification of the global climate crisis and the issue of resource scarcity, the fresh supply chain is facing significant governance challenges in achieving sustainable development due to its high loss rate and high carbon emissions. Existing research focuses on cold chain technology optimization or local link innovation. However, it struggles to break through the shackles of a linear economy dominated by capital logic and lacks theoretical criticism of systemic metabolic imbalance. Based on Marx’s “metabolic fracture” theory, this paper reveals how capital-logic alienation drives metabolic crises in Cuba’s fresh supply chain and environmental pollution after the victory of the Cuban revolution and before the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as the metabolic crisis caused by the alienation of capital logic and the exchange of natural and social materials. Following the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Cuban model of sustainable development was explored as a means of repairing the metabolic fracture between humanity and nature, offering another possibility for developing countries to address this issue. Integrating cybernetic technical means enables the construction of a governance path with both theoretical depth and practical direction. First of all, from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism, this paper deeply reveals the characteristics of Cuba’s fresh supply chain and provides the author with the inventory management mode and macro basis with the control theory as the technical means. Secondly, based on the H∞ control theory, the switching control model integrating decentralized and combined inventory is innovatively designed, and the linear matrix inequality method is used to construct the demand fluctuation suppression mechanism, which significantly reduces the bullwhip effect; Thirdly, the dynamic correlation function between fresh-keeping efforts and supply chain profits is established to quantitatively verify the Pareto improvement space of supplier retailer revenue improvement under collaborative inventory mode; Finally, the governance framework of “political-ecological supply chain” is proposed to realize metabolic repair from three dimensions: the closed-loop system of agricultural products based on circular economy reconstructs the material flow, the precise inventory management under the support of digital twin technology optimizes the energy exchange, and the ecological compensation mechanism led by community cooperatives reconciles the value distribution. Research shows that sustainable transformation needs to go beyond technical instrumentalism, and promote the rebalancing of the supply chain metabolic process and natural ecosystem through the adjustment of production relations (such as the redistribution of land public ownership enabling resources) and the reconstruction of ecological ethics (such as the intervention of demand side behavior). The main achievements of this paper provide paradigm innovation for the interdisciplinary application of Marxist theory in the field of supply chain management and also offer a practical reference for developing countries to repair metabolic fractures and achieve sustainable development.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825003521Sustainable managementSustainable developmentCuba’s fresh supply chainMarx’s metabolismCyberneticsMetabolic fracture |
| spellingShingle | Lihua Hu Chengjiu Wang Ping He Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism Sustainable Futures Sustainable management Sustainable development Cuba’s fresh supply chain Marx’s metabolism Cybernetics Metabolic fracture |
| title | Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism |
| title_full | Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism |
| title_short | Sustainable management of Cuba’s fresh supply chain from the perspective of Marx’s metabolism |
| title_sort | sustainable management of cuba s fresh supply chain from the perspective of marx s metabolism |
| topic | Sustainable management Sustainable development Cuba’s fresh supply chain Marx’s metabolism Cybernetics Metabolic fracture |
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