Bolivia witnessed a left-indigenous insurrectionary cycle
between 2000 and 2005 that overthrew two neoliberal presidents and laid the
foundation for Evo Morales’ successful bid to become the country’s first
indigenous head of state in 2006. Building on the theoretical traditions of
revolutionary Marxism and indigenous liberation, this book provides an
analytical framework for understanding the fine-grained sociological and
political nuances of twenty-first century Bolivian class-struggle,
state-repression, and indigenous resistance, as well the deeply historical
roots of today’s oppositional traditions. Drawing on extensive ethnographic
fieldwork, including more than 80 in-depth interviews with social-movement and
trade-union activists, Red October is a ground-breaking intervention in the
study of contemporary Bolivia and the wider Latin American turn to the left
over the last decade.
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