Che realised that increasing production was essential for a function socialist society. One cannot share equally when there is not enough to go around; you can not have a fully functioning society with scarcity of the necessities of life. He therefore, advocated for a rapid development of the productive capacity of Cuba so that the country could be increasingly as self-sufficient as possible. At the same time, however, he realised that socialism was not just about creating abundance, it was at the same time a transformation of society as it was the transformation of individuals.
In other word, socialism was an economic process as much as it was an educational process. As he put it, 'the two pillars of the construction of socialism: the education of the new man and woman and the development of technology' (Guevara 2002: 39). The tasks before revolutionary Cuba from Che's perspective included among others, the development of productive capacity to ensure an abundance for a just distribution among the whole population, the development of productive work relations in such a way as to create the potential for non-alienating work relations, and an educational (formal, non-formal and informal) process that would provide people with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to realise work in humanising (non-alienating) ways.