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Many progressive overseas academics, politicians, journalists and commentators have glowingly characterized the Evo Morales regime as radical, revolutionary and part of an anti-imperialist bloc.
Academics as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Emir Sader, Heinz Dietrich, Marta Hanecker and Immanuel Wallerstein have described Evo Morales as part of a new leftist wave sweeping Latin America. What is striking about these academic celebrants of President Morales, is the total absence of any empirical analysis of his recent political trajectory and the socio-economic and public policies implemented during his first 15 months in office.
A first approximation toward an understanding of the Morales regime is to briefly recount the role of Morales and his MAS Party in the period preceding his election and the relationship between the dynamic social movements to socio-political change
Title: Between Insurrection and Reaction: Evo Morales Pursuit of Normal Capitalism
Author: James Petras, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York (Binghamton),
Adjunct Professor St. Marys University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Conference Title: State Crises and Revolutionary Emergency
Conference Sponsors: Fourth National Congress of Sociology of Bolivia
Date: April 14, 2007
Place: La Paz, Bolivia