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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465712203321

Autore

Mars Perry

Titolo

Ideology and Change : The Transformation of the Caribbean Left / / Perry Mars

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Barbados : , : The Press, University of the West Indies, , 1998

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2014

©1998

ISBN

0-8143-3851-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

African American life series

Disciplina

972.9052

Soggetti

Right and left (Political science)

Electronic books.

West Indies, British Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables                     ""; ""List of Figures                      ""; ""Abbreviations                    ""; ""Preface              ""; ""1 Introduction: The Global Context                                         ""; ""THE ARGUMENT""; ""THE APPROACH""; ""THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES""; ""SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE""; ""2 Caribbean Conditions                             ""; ""CARIBBEAN CLASS STRUCTURE""; ""CLASS/RACE DYNAMICS""; ""THE MIDDLE CLASSES""; ""CARIBBEAN DEMOCRACY""; ""FOREIGN INFLUENCES""

""CONCLUSIONS""""3 Rise of the Organized Left                                   ""; ""HISTORICAL ORIGINS""; ""INTELLECTUAL CONTROL""; ""CLASSIFICATION OF THE CARIBBEAN LEFT""; ""Reformist Responses""; ""The Radical Challenge""; ""The Revolutionary Alternative""; ""IN RETROSPECT""; ""4 The Left Agenda                        ""; ""Anti-\mperialism""; ""Dictatorship and Democracy""; ""Transition to Socialism""; ""CLASS AND RACE""; ""LEFT UNITY""; ""REFLECTIONS ON THE LEFT AGENDA""; ""5 The Quest for Power                            ""; ""ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION""; ""MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES""

""INSTITUTIONALIZED REPRESSION""""POLITICAL VIOLENCE""; ""THE



IMPACT OF POWER STRUGGLE ON THE LEFT""; ""6 Leadership-Mass Contradictions                                       ""; ""THE ELITE-MASS GAP""; ""ELITE NEGLECT OF THE MASSES""; ""VANGUARDIST POLITICS""; ""ETHNO-POLITICAL MOBILIZATION""; ""POLITICAL EDUCATION""; ""MASS ALIENATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""7 Destabilization and Disintegration                                           ""; ""FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT""; ""PATTERNS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE""; ""FINANCING DESTABILIZATION""; ""FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION""; ""CULTIVATING THE RIGHT""

""8 Ideological Impact                           """"SOURCES OF IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION""; ""COURSE OF IDEOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF CARIBBEAN LEFT IDEOLOGY""; ""THE IMPACT OF MARXISM""; ""9 Conclusion: The Future of Left Wing Politics                                                     ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""; ""Backcover""