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      Could electoral democracy generate radical change? : Debates within Guatemala's radical left in the 1960s

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      Date
      2014-08-29
      Author
      Silver, Scott
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Throughout the 1960s, Guatemala’s radical left became consumed in an internal debate concerning the revolutionary strategy they believed should be followed to generate radical socio-political and economic changes in Guatemala. Confronting the societal anxieties that accompanied advances in modernity, such as growing wealth inequality, new forms of social poverty, and the marginalization of the fragments in Guatemalan society (primarily, peasants and workers), Guatemala’s radical left encountered a fundamental quandary in the development of its revolutionary methodology. Should they work within the confines of electoral democracy to realize radical reforms or, as a militant faction of the radical left increasingly proposed, would radical changes require an armed struggle aimed at toppling the nation’s entire system of governance?
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Handy, Jim
      Committee
      Wright, Sharon; Smith-Norris, Martha
      Copyright Date
      August 2014
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-08-1648
      Subject
      Guatemala
      1960s
      revolutionary theory and praxis
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