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Reinventing Revolution The Renovation Of Left Discourse In Cuba And Mexico
By Edward J Mccaughan
Copyright 1997
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on in-depth interviews with 74 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... Read more
Preface: Loss, Renewal, and Frida's Blue House, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Global Change, Paradigm Crisis, and the Renovation of Left Discourse, The Backdrop: From the Revolutionary 1960s to the Neoliberal1980s-What's Left?, Democracy I: The Persistence of Socialist and Liberal Orthodoxies, Democracy II: Renovative Perspectives on Democracy, Socialism I: State vs. Market, Socialism II: Renovative Perspectives on Economic Alternatives, National Sovereignty I: The Nation-State in the Post-Cold War, Globalized World-System, National Sovereignty II: Toward a Relative Autonomy of the Nation-State, Conclusions: Past Imperfect, Present Tense, Future Conditional, About the Book and Author, Index
Biography
Edward J . McCaughan is assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in New Orleans.
