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This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (‘the Sandinistas’), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN’s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.

Counterrevolutions --- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional --- FSLN --- F.S.L.N. --- Sandinist National Liberation Front --- Sandinista National Liberation Front --- History. --- Nicaragua --- History --- Politics and government

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Internal politics --- Political sociology --- Nicaragua --- United States --- 972.85 "1916/1979" --- Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional --- FSLN --- F.S.L.N. --- Sandinist National Liberation Front --- Sandinista National Liberation Front --- Guerrillas --- Bushwhackers --- Francs-tireurs --- Guerillas --- Maquis --- Partisans --- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. --- History --- National liberation movements --- United States of America

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"Close study of the changing political responses of two peasant populations whose neighboring regions near the Pacific coast experienced different impacts from the Sandinista agrarian reforms. Shows the irony of some reform-beneficiaries turning against their benefactor-regime, a more likely event when productive relations become privatized. Argues, contra Huntington, that demobilization of various social groups will work against the achievement of development goals"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Land reform --- Peasants --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Business & Economics --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Agrarian reform --- Economic policy --- Land use, Rural --- Social policy --- Agriculture and state --- Political aspects --- Political activity. --- Political activity --- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. --- FSLN --- F.S.L.N. --- Sandinist National Liberation Front --- Sandinista National Liberation Front --- Nicaragua --- Politics and government

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Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional --- History --- Nicaragua --- Causes --- Histoire --- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional --- Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional --- -FSLN --- F.S.L.N. --- Sandinist National Liberation Front --- Sandinista National Liberation Front --- -History --- -Causes. --- History. --- Causes. --- FSLN --- Nikaragua --- Nikaragoua --- República de Nicaragua --- Republic of Nicaragua --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Nicaragua. Histoire politique. 20e s. --- Nicaragua. Politieke geschiedenis. 20e eeuw. --- Nicaragua - History - 1909-1937 --- Nicaragua - History - 1937-1979 --- Nicaragua - History - Revolution, 1979 - Causes

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“I went to Nicaragua with nothing but a tourist visa, $1,500 in cash, the name of someone at the Agrarian Reform Ministry, and the idea of being a revolutionary intellectual. . . . The idea took hold in a simple character flaw: wanting to believe that I knew better than everyone else.” —From the preface When Michael Johns joined a Sandinista militia in 1983, a fellow revolutionary dubbed him a rábano, a radish: red on the outside but white on the inside. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Johns appreciates the wisdom of that label as he revisits the questions of identity he tried to resolve by working with the Sandinistas at that point in his life. In The Education of a Radical, Johns recounts his immersion in Marxism and the Nicaraguan sojourn it led to, with a painful maturation process along the way. His conversion began in college, where he joined a student group called the Latin American Solidarity Association and traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, for research on his senior thesis. Overwhelmed by the poverty he witnessed (and fascinated by a new friend named Maricela who was trying to turn peasants into revolutionaries and who carried a heavily highlighted copy of Late Capitalism), he experienced an ideological transformation. When a Marxist professor later encouraged him to travel to Nicaragua, the real internal battle began for him, a battle that was intensified by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and its effect on the Sandinistas, who believed they were the next target for an imminent American invasion. Before he knew it, Johns was digging trenches and learning how to use an AK-47. His intellectual ideals came face-to-face with revolutionary facts, and the results would perplex him for years to come. Bringing to life a vivid portrait of the sometimes painful process of reconciling reality with romanticized principles, The Education of a Radical encapsulates a trove of truths about humanity, economics, and politics in one man’s memorable journey.

Civil war --- Socialism --- Americans --- Revolutionaries --- Intellectuals --- History --- Johns, Michael, --- Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. --- Nicaragua --- Participation, American. --- Militia --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- FSLN --- F.S.L.N. --- Sandinist National Liberation Front --- Sandinista National Liberation Front --- Nikaragua --- Nikaragoua --- República de Nicaragua --- Republic of Nicaragua --- Central America (Federal Republic)