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9780745324364

Democracy and Revolution Latin America and Socialism Today

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    9780745324364

  • ISBN10:

    0745324363

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-20
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
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Summary

Shows how Cuba and Venezuela provide inspiration for anti-capitalist movements -- and how the Left must win power on a democratic basis.

Author Biography

D.L. Raby is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Liverpool, and also holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in the History Department of the University of Toronto. Raby has written many studies of Latin American and Iberian History and Politics, and is a long-standing activist in solidarity campaigns with Latin American struggles and social movements in the UK and Canada.

Table of Contents

The disinherited left : from dogmatic orthodoxy to romantic anti-capitalismp. 1
Democracy, formal or substantive : when liberalism becomes counter-revolutionaryp. 20
Socialism or popular power : revolutionary reality in a globalized worldp. 56
Originality and relevance of the Cuban revolutionp. 77
Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuelap. 132
Revolutions aborted : Chile, Nicaragua, Portugalp. 197
Leadership, movement and representation : populism and revolutionary strategyp. 227
The way forward : democracy, popular power and revolutionp. 258
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