Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation Of Left Discourse In Cuba And Mexico

by Edward J Mccaughan

Overview

Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429977350
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	617 KB

About the Author

Edward J . McCaughan is assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Table of Contents

Preface: Loss, Renewal, and Frida's Blue House, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Global Change, Paradigm Crisis, and the Renovation of Left Discourse, The Backdrop: From the Revolutionary 1960s to the Neoliberal1980s-What's Left?, Democracy I: The Persistence of Socialist and Liberal Orthodoxies, Democracy II: Renovative Perspectives on Democracy, Socialism I: State vs. Market, Socialism II: Renovative Perspectives on Economic Alternatives, National Sovereignty I: The Nation-State in the Post-Cold War, Globalized World-System, National Sovereignty II: Toward a Relative Autonomy of the Nation-State, Conclusions: Past Imperfect, Present Tense, Future Conditional, About the Book and Author, Index

Editorial Reviews

For this exploration of the thinking of progressives, 75 intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico were interviewed on the big questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. The conclusion: that the collapse of state socialism, the rise of neoliberalism, and accelerated economic globalization have deeply challenged the old paradigms of Latin America's socialist and nationalist lefts, giving rise to ideas that defy both Marxist and liberal orthodoxies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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