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The Peasants as a Revolutionary Class: An Early Latin American View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Harry E. Vanden
Harry E. Vanden*
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Department of Political Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620
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We do not regard Marx's theory as something completed and inviolable; on the contrary, we are convinced that it has only laid the foundation stone of the science which socialists must develop in all directions if they wish to keep pace with life.

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The peasant is one of the least understood and most abused actors on the modern political stage. He is maligned for his political passivity and distrust of national political movements. Yet, most of the great twentieth-century revolutions in the Third World have, according to most scholars, been peasant based (Landsberger, 1973: ix; Wolf, 1969). In Latin America the peasant was once pictured as the archetypical parochial who was more suited for siestas under his sombrero than serious political activity. Stereotypes aside, the region has been no exception to the growing tendency of peasants to become involved in major revolutionary processes.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , May 1978 , pp. 191 - 209
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Copyright © University of Miami 1978

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