Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays
First English-language anthology of one of Latin America’s pre-eminent Marxist writers

The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America’s most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico’s Zapatista uprising. Paths of Revolution presents the first representative selection from across his extensive body of work, collecting close-quarters reportage, sharp political analyses and reflections on art and letters.

A living link between the New Left of the 1960s and the Pink Tide of recent decades, Gilly once described the twentieth century as a series of lightning flashes which can illuminate our present-day predicament. The essay form is where he fully comes into his own, covering a truly impressive range of topics and places. This collection draws out the continuities within one of the world’s more vibrant and politically successful left traditions.

In the introduction, Tony Wood (author of Russia Without Putin) offer an overall portrait of Gilly’s life and work.
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Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays
First English-language anthology of one of Latin America’s pre-eminent Marxist writers

The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America’s most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico’s Zapatista uprising. Paths of Revolution presents the first representative selection from across his extensive body of work, collecting close-quarters reportage, sharp political analyses and reflections on art and letters.

A living link between the New Left of the 1960s and the Pink Tide of recent decades, Gilly once described the twentieth century as a series of lightning flashes which can illuminate our present-day predicament. The essay form is where he fully comes into his own, covering a truly impressive range of topics and places. This collection draws out the continuities within one of the world’s more vibrant and politically successful left traditions.

In the introduction, Tony Wood (author of Russia Without Putin) offer an overall portrait of Gilly’s life and work.
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Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays

Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays

by Adolfo Gilly
Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays

Paths of Revolution: Selected Essays

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First English-language anthology of one of Latin America’s pre-eminent Marxist writers

The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America’s most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico’s Zapatista uprising. Paths of Revolution presents the first representative selection from across his extensive body of work, collecting close-quarters reportage, sharp political analyses and reflections on art and letters.

A living link between the New Left of the 1960s and the Pink Tide of recent decades, Gilly once described the twentieth century as a series of lightning flashes which can illuminate our present-day predicament. The essay form is where he fully comes into his own, covering a truly impressive range of topics and places. This collection draws out the continuities within one of the world’s more vibrant and politically successful left traditions.

In the introduction, Tony Wood (author of Russia Without Putin) offer an overall portrait of Gilly’s life and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839765001
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 10/18/2022
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Adolfo Gilly was born in Buenos Aires in 1928. A Trotskyist since his youth, immersed in the workers’ movement, he worked in Bolivia for the Fourth International and Marcha, a leading Latin American political and cultural weekly. In Italy in 1960-62 he witnessed the beginnings of the autonomia movement. He reported from Cuba for Monthly Review and travelled with leftist guerrillas in Guatemala. In 1966 he was arrested in Mexico and spent six years in Lecumberri Prison, where he produced La revolución interrumpida (in English, The Mexican Revolution). On his release he was deported to France, returning in 1976 when he secured a teaching job at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has lived in Mexico ever since.

Table of Contents

Introduction Tony Wood 1

Part I Witnessing Revolution

1 Cuba in October (1964) 13

2 Chile: A Day with Allende (1964) 27

3 The Guerrilla Movement in Guatemala (1965) 38

4 Camilo Torres, the Forerunner (2016) 52

5 A Political Defense (1969) 57

6 Nicaragua and Bolivia: Two Paths (1980) 67

Part II Clandestine Histories

7 Mexico: Subaltern Civilization (2003) 73

8 A Certain Idea of Mexico: The Presence, Nostalgia, and Persistence of Cardenismo (2002) 94

9 The Indigenous Army and the Mexican State (1999, 2002) 107

10 A Twenty-First-Century Revolution (2004) 132

11 Intermittent Insurrections (2009) 147

Part III Between Past and Future

12 Bolivia Fifty Years On (2003) 157

13 Destinies of a Revolution (2017) 170

14 Ernest Mandel: Memories of Oblivion (1995) 186

15 Globalization, Violence, Revolutions: Nine Theses (2001) 193

16 Lawless Planet (2007) 213

17 The Emerging "Threat" of Radical Populism (2005) 219

Part IV Politics and Letters

18 Star and Spiral: Octavio Paz, André Breton, and Surrealism (2014) 229

19 Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Papacha Oblitas (1999) 241

20 "Whiteness," Modernity, Humiliation (2011) 257

21 The Art of Storytelling (2006) 265

Note on the Text and Acknowledgments 271

Index 275

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