The commemoration of the centenary of the death of Carlos Marx and the XXX Anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks were the fundamental reasons that brought together the interests of several researchers who decided to publish the Revista Cubana de Ciencias Sociales for the first time. The journal is a publication of the Institute of Philosophy of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and was founded in 1983. Since 2005 it has the Certification of Technological Scientific Serial Publications granted by the Science Directorate of CITMA.

Since its foundation, the magazine has been a space for reflections and dialogues on: Cuban, Latin American and Caribbean thought; the theory, history and updating of Marxism; anti-capitalist experiences and the socialist transition process. From the development that the social disciplines have had, new topics have been incorporated into the editorial line of the journal: complexity theory and second-order epistemology; science, technology and innovation; linguistics and applied anthropology; environment; symbolic production and alternative communication. In the articles and essays that are published, diverse epistemological perspectives and multiple theoretical interests converge.

Authors such as: José Antonio Portuondo, Isabel Monal, Daysi Rivero, José Luciano Franco, Cira Romero, Sergio Valdés Bernal, Julio Le Riverend, Miguel Limia, María del Carmen Barcia, Lourdes Rensoli have published in the pages of the Cuban Journal of Social Sciences. , Alberto Garrandés, José Luis Rodríguez, Pablo Guadarrama, Jorge Núñez Jover, Rigoberto Pupo, Max Figueroa Esteva, Enrique Saínz, Jorge Hernández Martínez, Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Mayra Espina, Sergio Chaple, María Isabel Domínguez, Teresa Muñoz.

Currently, the journal is the spokesperson for critical social leadership and the creative subjectivity that accompanies the irredeemable and outdated desire to make other forms of human coexistence; fairer, safer and more hopeful.