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Dilemmas for the Ecuadorian left in the shadow of Correa 科雷亚阴影下厄瓜多尔左翼的困境

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2024.v9.1.003

Geoff Goodwin

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Radical Americas Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2024.v9.1.002

William A. Booth, Nicholas Grant

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Book review: The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism, by Benjamin Holtzman 书评长期危机：纽约市与新自由主义之路》，本杰明-霍尔茨曼著

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2024.v9.1.001

Benjamin Shepard

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Student colectivos in the USSR during the Cold War 1960s: shaping Cuba’s ‘New Man’ from abroad 冷战期间苏联的学生集体:从国外塑造古巴的“新人”

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.003

Rafael Pedemonte

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Radicalisation and political crisis: the personal transitions of a Guatemalan social Christian militant, 1942–1981 激进化与政治危机:1942-1981年危地马拉社会基督教激进分子的个人转变

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.002

Rodrigo Véliz Estrada

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Martians in the favela: religion and revolution in Rio de Janeiro 贫民窟里的火星人:里约热内卢的宗教与革命

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.001

Mitchell Rom

{"title":"Martians in the favela: religion and revolution in Rio de Janeiro","authors":"Mitchell Rom","doi":"10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2023.v8.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"Research on Marxism as a religious movement has primarily focused on its theological implications. Building on this work, this article instead examines the practical aspects of revolutionary Marxism as a religious experience during the Latin American Cold War, and compares it to two other non-Christian religious traditions, Judaism and Umbanda. Drawing on secret police records, memoirs and oral history interviews, this article explores the influence of Judaism, Marxism and Umbanda on the anti-dictatorship activism of Alfredo Syrkis. Through an analysis of Syrkis’s life history, it assesses his conversion from liberal anticommunism to revolutionary Marxism, his participation in Marxist proselytising as a high school activist and his political activity in the clandestine Marxist organisation Revolutionary Popular Vanguard (VPR), highlighting group dynamics that were comparable to millenarian movements. It also considers the importance of other religious traditions in Syrkis’s life, including Judaism, the religion of his parents that equipped him with valuable social ties, and Umbanda, a syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion that Syrkis turned to during times of extreme anxiety in the armed struggle. This article argues that the religious traditions of Judaism, revolutionary Marxism and Umbanda influenced Syrkis’s political activism in both complementary and competing ways. While none of these traditions were able to command Syrkis’s undivided loyalty, collectively they informed the terms of his engagement with and disengagement from the Brazilian armed struggle against military rule. By analysing Syrkis’s life history through the lens of religion, this article broadens the study of cultures of militancy during Latin America’s Cold War.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116885886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The limits of expectation: Kurt Weyland’s ‘Limits of US Influence’ 期望的极限:库尔特·韦兰的《美国影响力的极限》

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2021.v7.1.002

W. Booth

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Gender violence as genocide: the Rosa Lee Ingram case and We Charge Genocide petition 性别暴力是种族灭绝:罗莎·李·英格拉姆案和我们指控种族灭绝请愿书

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2022.v7.1.001

D. Lynn

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Gendering the revolution: Bohemia, power and culture in post-revolutionary Cuba, 1960–85 革命的性别化:1960 - 1985年革命后古巴的波西米亚、权力和文化

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2022.v7.1.003

Isabella Rooney

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From Marx to Heidegger: Oscar del Barco and the crisis of Marxism 从马克思到海德格尔:奥斯卡·德尔·巴可与马克思主义的危机

Radical Americas Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2021.v6.1.021

Bruno Bosteels

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