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Revolutionary Theory and Political Reality in the Eastern Caribbean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Patrick A. M. Emmanuel
Patrick A. M. Emmanuel*
Affiliation:
Institute of Social and Economic Research University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados
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In this analysis of contemporary economic and sociopolitical reality in the smaller states of the Commonwealth Caribbean— the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) comprising Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis and Montserrat (the Leeward Islands) and Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent (the Windward Islands)—developments within the larger CARICOM countries—namely Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Barbados—will be discussed. All too often social science analysis of the Commonwealth Caribbean assumes a great deal of homogeneity among all CARICOM countries, therefore concluding that what might be a correct analysis of Jamaica, for example, is equally applicable to any of the smaller territories. This article shows that this assumption is often erroneous and can produce several pitfalls in perspective, diagnosis, and prognosis.

During the 1970s there have been several concrete developments in the Commonwealth Caribbean presenting the intellectual community with unprecedented tasks of interpretation. Broadly, the decade began with the massive “black power” upheavals in Trinidad and Tobago and culminated with the revolutionary overthrow of the neocolonial Gairy regime next door in Grenada.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 193 - 227
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Copyright © University of Miami 1983

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