Red October : left-Indigenous struggles in modern Bolivia

Red October : left-Indigenous struggles in modern Bolivia / by Jeffery R. Webber.

In the opening years of this century, a left-Indigenous insurrectionary cycle in Bolivia mounted the most radical challenge to neoliberalism in the Western hemisphere. This book provides a Marxist and Indigenous-liberationist analysis of this revolutionary epoch and is historical context.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webber, Jeffery R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Historical materialism book series ; v. 29.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Social movements > Bolivia.
Social change > Bolivia.
Social conflict > Boliva.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Government relations.
Peasants > Political activity > Bolivia.
Right and left (Political science) > Bolivia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Indians of South America > Government relations
Indians of South America > Politics and government
Peasants > Political activity
Politics and government
Right and left (Political science)
Social change
Social conflict
Social movements
Bolivia > Politics and government > 21st century.
Bolivia
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Table of Contents:
  • Politics of Indigenous resistance and class-struggle
  • Indigenous insurgency, working-class struggle, and popular cultures of resistance and opposition, 1781-1964
  • Authoritarianism, democracy, and popular struggle, 1964-85
  • Neoliberal Counter-Revolution, 1985-2000
  • Left-Indigenous insurrectionary cycle, 2000-3
  • Red October: Gas-War, 2003
  • Carlos Mesa and a divided country: left-Indigenous and eastern-Bourgeois blocs in the second Gas-War of May and June 2005
  • Combined-oppositional consciousness
  • Conclusion: Bolivia, Venezuela, and the Latin-American left.

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