MODERN LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

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MODERN LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

• Eric Selbin

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Chap. 1Theoretical Perspectives

• Revolution
• event vs process
• structure
  agency/people
  
• cause
  post-revolution
  
• 
  outcome, goal
  
• 
  
  
• Human elements of process
• ideology, leadership, human agency
  

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Difference betw. First Gen. Revol FranceRussia,
China and LatAM

• 1. Similarities
• insurrection, polit victory,
  transformation
  
• 2. Differences
• 1st LA
• pre-industrial economic depend.
• large,rural,trad gov small, neo-colon.
  Semi-
  
• modern state
  
  
• 
  
  

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Authors approach

• Focus
• 1. not on cause---but on post-revol. Process
• 2. not on structurebut on people
• 3. institutionalization structure of process
• formationgov, courts, police, milit
• 4. consolidation heart of process--ideology
• attitudes/values/beli
  ef system
  
• Trust
• Opportunity
• Vision
• Empowerment

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Theorists

• 1. Marx
• not event, but process
• structural conditions/contradictions
• drove process
• role of agencyhuman action intent
• actors-based on class interests
• Men make their own history, but they do not make
  it just as they please.
  
• Class consciousness class interests
• linked to class action and politics
• Quotes from Skocpol p. 6

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• 2. Tilly
• focus on structural conditions
• collective actioninteracts w/ institutions
• emphasis-prior to political victory
• 3. Huntington
• modernization
• 4. Skocpol
• state crisis/breakdown
• revolutions happen, they are not made

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Chapter 2 Social Revolutionary PathsCuba
Nicaragua

• Consolidation Institutionalization
  
  
• Cuba Yes No
• Nica Yes Yes
  

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Chap. 3 Social Revolutionary Leadership Ideology
Strategy

• Revolutions do not happen but are made,
• guided by the conscious plans and significant
  choices of revolutionary leadersp66
  
• Few studies of revolutionary leaders
• mostly psychological

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Alternatives

• 1. Roles of revolutionary leaders
• idealists, formulators, propagandists,
• agitators organizers
• 2. Leaders according to stages
• Preliminaryagitator
• Popularprophet, reformer
• Formalstatesman
• Institutionaladministrator-exec./CEO

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Visionary and OrganizationalLeadership Styles

• Visionaryarticulate the social
• revolutionary ideology
• verbal, dynamic, charismatic appeal
• inspire collective image of better future
• promote new values/moral principles
• Organizationaltranslate the revolutionary
• ideal into reality
• pragmatic realists, make compromise

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Visionary leadership

• Che Guevara
• focus new person
• behavior/values defined by moral
• incentives
• work for the greater good of all
• personal worth measured by
• commitment to
• revolutionary struggle/not
  wealth
  

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QuotesChe GuevaraP. 74

• The revolution must have a great deal of
  humanity and a strong sense of justice and
  truth..
  
• The true revolutionary is guided by a great
  feeling of love.
  
• His or her most beautiful quality is the
  capability of feeling any injustice committed
  against anyone, anywhere in the world.
  

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Social Revolutionary Ideology

• Ideologythoughts and ideas
• belief system
• Ideasused to make sense of peoples
• place in society
• how society should be
• how that vision could be
  accomplished
  
• Material conditionsrelated to
• attitudes toward institutions
• organizes complexity into
  inderstand.
  
• guides behavior

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Examples of Social Revol Ideology

• FranceDemocracy
• Cuba---The new man/woman
• NicaraguaSandinismo
• nationalism
• pragmatic Marxism
• Catholic Humanism
• mixed economy
• political pluralism

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Link between Ideology and Action
Organizational Leadership

• Responsible for Institutionalization
• Fundamental for Revolution
• creating a better future
• Problems
• 1. New orgs must fit with societys
• valuesconsistency
• 2. Access-something to gain
• 3. Commitmentvaries
• Ortega (Nicaragua) as leader of pragmatists

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Mobilizing the PopulationSocial Revolutionary
Strategy