LEADER 04556nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910779260303321 005 20230802005259.0 010 $a0-292-73789-0 024 7 $a10.7560/737884 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104277 035 $a(OCoLC)801411595 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10572652 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000688772 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688772 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10613610 035 $a(PQKB)11416251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443606 035 $a(OCoLC)859673885 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443606 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10572652 035 $a(OCoLC)932314274 035 $a(DE-B1597)588177 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292737891 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104277 100 $a20111007d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe education of a radical$b[electronic resource] $ean American revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua /$fby Michael Johns 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (143 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-73788-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $t1 -- $t2 -- $t3 -- $t4 -- $t5 -- $t6 -- $t7 -- $t8 -- $t9 -- $t10 -- $t11 -- $t12 -- $t13 -- $t14 -- $t15 -- $t16 -- $t17 -- $t18 -- $t19 -- $t20 -- $t21 -- $t22 -- $t23 -- $t24 -- $t25 -- $t26 -- $t27 -- $t28 -- $t29 -- $t30 -- $t31 -- $t32 -- $t33 -- $t34 -- $t35 -- $t36 -- $t37 -- $t38 -- $t39 -- $t40 -- $tEpilogue 330 $a?I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else.? ?From the preface When Michael Johns joined a Sandinista militia in 1983, a fellow revolutionary dubbed him a rábano, a radish: red on the outside but white on the inside. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Johns appreciates the wisdom of that label as he revisits the questions of identity he tried to resolve by working with the Sandinistas at that point in his life. In The Education of a Radical, Johns recounts his immersion in Marxism and the Nicaraguan sojourn it led to, with a painful maturation process along the way. His conversion began in college, where he joined a student group called the Latin American Solidarity Association and traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, for research on his senior thesis. Overwhelmed by the poverty he witnessed (and fascinated by a new friend named Maricela who was trying to turn peasants into revolutionaries and who carried a heavily highlighted copy of Late Capitalism), he experienced an ideological transformation. When a Marxist professor later encouraged him to travel to Nicaragua, the real internal battle began for him, a battle that was intensified by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and its effect on the Sandinistas, who believed they were the next target for an imminent American invasion. Before he knew it, Johns was digging trenches and learning how to use an AK-47. His intellectual ideals came face-to-face with revolutionary facts, and the results would perplex him for years to come. Bringing to life a vivid portrait of the sometimes painful process of reconciling reality with romanticized principles, The Education of a Radical encapsulates a trove of truths about humanity, economics, and politics in one man?s memorable journey. 606 $aCivil war$zNicaragua$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocialism$zNicaragua$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmericans$zNicaragua$vBiography 606 $aRevolutionaries$zNicaragua$vBiography 606 $aIntellectuals$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aNicaragua$xHistory$y1979-1990$vBiography 607 $aNicaragua$xHistory$yRevolution, 1979$xParticipation, American 607 $aNicaragua$xMilitia$vBiography 615 0$aCivil war$xHistory 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 615 0$aAmericans 615 0$aRevolutionaries 615 0$aIntellectuals 676 $a972.8505/3 700 $aJohns$b Michael$f1958-$01569715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779260303321 996 $aThe education of a radical$93842771 997 $aUNINA