Reinventing revolution
Subtitle: the renovation of left discourse in Cuba and Mexico
By: Edward J. McCaughan.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Socialism -- Latin America; Nationalism -- Latin America; Right and left (Political science); Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Description: "Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big - and enduring - questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty.

Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and ideology, Edward McCaughan concludes that the collapse of state socialism, the rise of neoliberalism, and accelerated economic globalization have deeply challenged the old paradigms of Latin America's socialist and nationalist lefts and have given rise to renovative ideas that defy both Marxist and liberal orthodoxies.

The book's findings are relevant not only throughout Latin America but in Eastern Europe, Russia, South Africa, India, and other regions of the world where political, social, and intellectual forces continue to defy predictions about the "end of history.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.