| Description |
232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Venezuela - Revolution as Spectacle analyses the Chavez regime from an antiauthoritarian Venezuelan perspective. It debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that the Chavez government is dictatorial, as well as, claims made by Venezuelan and US leftists that the Chavez government is revolutionary. Instead the book argues that the Chavez regime is one of a long line of Latin American populist regimes that revolutionary - "rhetoric aside" - ultimately have been subservient to the United States as well as to multinational corporations. The book concludes by explaining how Venezuela's autonomous social, labour, and environmental movements have been systematically disempowered by the Chavez regime, but that despite this they remain the basis of a truly democratic, revolutionary alternative."--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Leftist reaction to the Bolivarian revolution -- Daily life in revolutionary Venezuela -- The devil's excrement -- Populism and militarism -- Social movements -- The Bolivarian political process -- The challenge of the future. |
| Subject |
Venezuela -- History -- 1999-
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Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1974-1999
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Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
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| Added Author |
Bufe, Charles.
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| ISBN |
9781884365775 |
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1884365779 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000046722145 |
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