The battle of ideas in the Chávez revolution
By: Leonardo Vivas
Contributors: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Series: Carr Working Papers Series; Carr Working Papers Series
Publisher: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Politics and government
Description: "This paper establishes that the ideological roots of the Bolivarian revolution are more robust than what most of its critics claim. Responding to an ideological vacuum in Latin America at the time, the Chávez revolution has nurtured from several traditions: Bolívar’s political philosophy, the authoritarian revival, the revolutionary tradition, and the claim for a distinctive brand of democracy. Each of these themes feed the type of regime emerging in Venezuela, while creating a divide between Hugo Chávez and his opponents, especially regarding how democracy is conceived. Mixing all these components, today Chavismo claims universality for a type of regime advanced to substitute representative democracy, and which can be understood as a mutant resulting from the combination of revolution and democracy. As a result, current trends regarding both political and individual rights are perturbing."--publ. note
Notes: "March 2010."

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