{"product_id":"john-roberts-permanent-revolution-in-latin-america-9781900007948","title":"Permanent Revolution in Latin America","description":"This book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe popular masses pay for the absence of a correct revolutionary\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstrategy. The goal of the leaders of the revolutionary movements in all\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthree countries was to create a progressive, independent bourgeoisdemocratic\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstate but contrary to expectations, the national bourgeoisie\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndid not welcome a national democratic revolution. Instead, faced\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwith a mass movement, it fought hard to re-assert its own and US\n\u003cbr\u003e\nimperialism’s economic and political stranglehold, opposing increased\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndemocratic rights, greater social equality, agrarian reform and the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nredistribution of wealth.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWe trace how, in all three countries, the national bourgeoisie joined\n\u003cbr\u003e\nforces with imperialism and used violent methods to reverse the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nprogressive measures made, and when these attempts failed carried\n\u003cbr\u003e\non a campaign of economic sabotage to starve the masses into\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsubmission. In Cuba the revolution was propelled forward by abolishing\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncapitalism and enormous conquests were made. In Nicaragua and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nVenezuela, the revolution was stopped half way, leading to disaster\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand defeat.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs the world enters a decisive revolutionary epoch, reformists, just\n\u003cbr\u003e\nas they did in Nicaragua and Venezuela, attempt to hold that revolution\n\u003cbr\u003e\nback. In the face of all experience, their solution to social crises is one\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhich stubbornly remains within the narrow limits of capitalism.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis book is a contribution to the debate about revolutionary\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstrategy. It highlights the lessons to be learned from the recent past,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nargues against the failed reformist approach and draws the conclusion\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthat only through the workers coming to power and expropriating the\n\u003cbr\u003e\noligarchy can we begin to overcome the exploitation and oppression\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof the masses.","brand":"Wellred","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53915761770838,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781900007948_1.jpg?v=1779208019","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/john-roberts-permanent-revolution-in-latin-america-9781900007948","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}