...Susan Eckstein Law and Religion in Marxist Cuba: A Human Rights Inquiry . By Short Margaret I. . New Brunswick : Transaction , 1993 . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography , vii, 209 pp. Paper . $18.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 How has Fidel Castro’s...

...Donald C. Hodges Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory . By Becker Marc . Athens : Ohio University Press , 1993 . Notes. Bibliography . xxv, 214 pp. Paper. $18.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 This book contests the depiction of Latin American...

...Patricia Weiss Fagen Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile . Edited by Sweezy Paul M. and Magdoff Harry . New York , 1974 . Monthly Review Press . Pp. 169 . Cloth. $7.50 . Chile’s Marxist Experiment . By Moss Robert . New York , 1973 . John Wiley...

...Roderic Ai Camp Salvador Allende: An Interview with Chile’s Marxist President, May 29, 1973 . Interview by Wallach John . North Hollywood, California . The Center for Cassette Studies. Voices of Latin America , 34053. 59 minutes . $16.95 . Chile, 1973 . Panel discussion...

... historians in his essay, “History and Politics in the Soviet Union.” 1 Black points out that: The general line of the party’s directives to historians has been that they should contribute to the promotion of communism at home and abroad by demonstrating in the light of Marxist-Leninist methodology...

...Robert E. Scott Mexican Marxist. Vicente Lombardo Toledano . By Millon Robert Paul . Chapel Hill , 1966 . University of North Carolina Press . Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 222 . $6.00 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Despite its title this short...

...Louis A. Pérez, Jr. José Martí, the United States, and the Marxist Interpretation of Cuban History . By Ripoll Carlos . New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books , 1984 . Notes. Index . Pp. ix , 80 . Paper. $6.95 . Copyright 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Both...

...Luis E. Aguilar Marxist Thought in Latin America . By Liss Sheldon B. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 374 . Copyright 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 The study of Marxism in Latin America presents...

...David Scott Palmer The study is useful more as an effort to construct an appropriate Marxist framework for analysis of Third World societies than as a detailed examination of the military government of Perú. Hence, “economic constraints analysis [e.g., Aníbal Quijano, E. V. K. FitzGerald...

...Carlos B. Gil Historia mexicana: Economía y lucha de clases . By Semo Enrique . México , 1978 . Ediciones Era . Tables. Notes . Pp. 338 . Paper. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 This book encourages the study of Mexican history from a Marxist perspective...

..., interesting, and correct” (p. 318), Packenham is deeply concerned about the movement’s “Marxist socialism” (p. 38) and its impact on intellectuals and, in particular, on mainstream social science and development studies. Consequently, this book presents an unusually strong polemical, critical, and contentious...

... bibliography appended to this volume. Koval approaches his topic from a Marxist-Leninist perspective, once again drawing attention to the fundamental conceptual differences which separate Marxist and non-Marxist historians. Resting on the thesis that in class societies historical scholarship of necessity...

... extends from the 1920s to 1935, when the area’s Marxists tended to emphasize socialism and anti-imperialism. The second period, dominated by Stalinism, starts in the mid-1930s and ends in 1959. During most of these years, the Soviet leadership defined revolution by stages and placed Latin America...

... . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 In this book Samuel Silva Gotay treats the significance of Christians as revolutionary theorists and as political activists in Latin America today. He hopes to reconcile Marxist sociology with the liberation theologians’ sociology of religion to prove...

... a doctrinaire Marxist strategy that included a violent path to socialism. This opposition within his own government doomed Allende’s peaceful approach from the outset. When municipal and special elections indicated a decline of support for the Popular Unity program by late 1972, the president gave up his...

... was already a convinced Marxist-Leninist. . . .” Hence, from the beginning, Castro was “consciously” [author’s emphasis] guiding the “Cuban revolutionary process toward a Jacobinic [sic] overthrow of the capitalist system and an alliance with the socialist camp” [reviewer’s emphasis]. To prove his...

... deteriorated and Chile’s highly praised political stability was doomed. In 1970 the Marxists took control of the nation. Their ambition was to create peacefully a socialist state, but they were confronted with a hostile congress, an entrenched bureaucracy and the traditional Chilean fear of Marxism...

... This short book gives an overall view of communist parties, guerrilla movements, and Marxist-Leninist governments in the various countries of Central America and the Caribbean. It does so against the background of the social, economic, and political problems of these nations, and within the context...

... between October 1970 and May 1971 attempts to outline the reasons Chile elected a Marxist President as well as to decipher the political appeals contained in the programs of the competing candidates. Garcés emphasizes the “uniqueness” of the Chilean political experience and spends considerable space...

... and later in Brazil, failed to provide the reader with a clear idea of the book’s contents. After an intellectually sloppy attempt to classify Latin American dictatorships in terms of their relationship to “fascism,” as defined by Marxist theory, the author moves on to his real concern: explaining...