[PEN-L:9623] Re: Re: Revolution in Colombia, part one: historical background

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>didn't the Trotskyist Hugo Blanco organize (and arm) peasants in Peru? If I
>remember correctly, some Trotskyists were criticized by the Left in general
>because they organized and armed peasants and then left them to defend
>themselves against the Army. And some of the armed movements in Latin
>America are Trotskyist in name or in origin.
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html

Hugo Blanco is a notable exception to the rule. There was an armed group in
Argentina in the 1970s, but its urban guerrilla warfare owed more to a
schematic understanding of the Cuban revolution than anything else.

Louis Proyect

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