Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism TodayPluto Press, 2006 - 280 pages Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union? What is the way forward for the Left? D. L. Raby argues that Cuba and above all Venezuela provide inspiration for anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movements across the world. Another world is possible, but only by winning power on a popular democratic basis. Raby argues that the future lies not in the dogmatism of the Old Left, nor in the spontaneous autonomism of Holloway or Negri. Instead, it is to be found in broad popular movements with bold leadership. Examining the success of key leaders including Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Raby shows that it is more necessary than ever to take power, peacefully if possible, but with the strength that comes from popular unity backed by force where necessary. In this way democratic power can be built, which may or may not be socialist depending on one's definition, but which represents the real anti-capitalist alternative for the twenty-first century. |
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... favour of the interests of the majority ' ( Alonso 2004 , 11 ; translation mine ) . He goes on to declare that It seems paradoxical that we should still have to regard as exceptional in the Third World those situations in which the ...
... favour of a different type of elections , of a system ( yet to be developed ) of revolutionary democracy . This is why they responded so favourably to Fidel's repeated statements in favour of such a system , as when he referred to the ...
... favour of a liberal constitutionalist regime was achieved without great upheaval . But with the incipient industrialisation which Vargas himself had promoted , the development of the working - class and urban popular sectors was such ...
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When Liberalism | 20 |
Revolutionary Reality in | 56 |
Originality and Relevance of the Cuban Revolution | 77 |
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