Trotskyism, Hugo Blanco and the ideology of a Peruvian peasant movement

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Abstract
During 1958–62 the province of La Convención in the eastern lowlands of Peru was the site of one of the most important peasant movements in Latin America. A central paradox is that although the movement was led by and reflected the economic interests of an emerging stratum of capitalist peasants, its principal mobilising ideology in the struggle against the landlord class over this period was Trotskyism. For this reason, the politico‐ideological utterances of Hugo Blanco, a Trotskyist who played a leading role in the peasant movement, together with his views on the nature of the class structure, the class struggle, class alliances, etc., are examined in order to establish their class‐specific acceptability.

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