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      Marxist Rebellion in the Age of Neo-Liberal Globalization: FARC and the Naxalite-Maoists in Comparison

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      Date
      2014-10-31
      Author
      Jordan, Heather
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Despite the general academic consensus that liberal democracy has triumphed over communism, Marxist-inspired movements continue to thrive across the global south. This is a curious phenomenon in the post-Cold War era. This paper explores the recent growth of both The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency in India, and compares the two groups. It analyzes the factors that have led to their resurgence, in particular, the political and economic dimensions. Specifically, it addresses the impact of two dominant factors in fomenting their resurgence: neo-liberalism and political exclusion. First, recent growth of both groups seems to correlate with the adoption of neo-liberal economic policies and progressively draconian structural adjustments, which aggravated existing poverty and inequality, in their respective countries. Second, recent growth of both groups seems to correlate with political exclusion of marginalized groups, an exclusion increasingly enforced by state violence. The survival and growth of Marxist-inspired armed movements across the globe also raises important questions about the future of liberal democracy. This paper asks whether the persistence of Marxist-inspired movements across the global south has given the lie to the "end of history" theory, and what their resurgence says, if anything, about the "clash of civilizations theory. It concludes that the success of these movements challenges the apparent triumph of liberal democracy in both Colombia and India, and perhaps in the post-Cold War era globally.
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      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Political Studies
      Program
      Political Science
      Copyright Date
      September 2014
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      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-09-1785
      Subject
      Liberal Democracy End of History Clash of Civilizations Marxism Post-Cold War Period Neo-liberalism State Violence Colombia India Naxalites Naxals Maoists Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC
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