REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL CHANGE IN COLOMBIA - FARC

AN OVERVIEW OF THE FARC-EP

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Map 1.1 Area of PCC self-defense communities and early FARC-EP extension, late 1950s to mid-1960s Sources: Safford and Palacios, 2003: 355; Richani, 2002a: 60; Osterling, 1989: 280; Walton, 1984: 75; Gott, 1973: 282; 1970: 233–36; Huizer, 1970: 404–5. Note: Most likely because of an error in printing, the map utilized within Huizer (1970) should have been more accurately placed within Gilhodés (1970).

There are differing viewpoints on the development and purpose of the self-defense groups. Some recognized the collectives as autonomous passive alternatives to a repressive state (Walton, 1984: 94, 99). Others saw the communities as strategic centers of grassroots communist-based organizing (Osterling, 1989; Gomez, 1972; Pomeroy, 1968). Arguing the former, Avilés (2006: 36) claimed

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Index

Notes

Between a rock and a hard place: the realities of contemporary global capitalism

A stick with no carrot: supporting revolutionary alliances

A potential for collapse

The FARC-EP’s aptitude to take state power: The DIA bombshell

elections, 1970–86 (UP–1986

7.1 The percentage of women in the FARC-EP since 1964

7.3 MBNC (PCCC) model of political organization

in selected Latin American countries

How the FARC-EP has affected politics

How the FARC-EP has affected culture

The media’s structural silencing of Colombia’s revolution

since 1958

JACs and political pacification

to revolutionary community-based institution

The FARC-EP’s contestation of urban-centric power theories The transformation of JAC: from pacifying state mechanism

The AUC’s structural connection to coca

US links to Colombia’s narcotic political economy and paramilitarism

The role and relation of the coca industry to the paramilitary and guerrillas

violations against non-combatants in Colombia

Colombian fascism in action

1980s

narcobourgeoisie, and the AUC

The AUC: An appendage of Colombian fascism The historic interconnections between land, the

The MAS/ACCU partnership and the manifestation of fascism via the AUC

The MAS/ACDEGAM’s formation of MORENA

The reactionary formation of the MAS and ACDEGAM

Colombian economy

The Castaño connection

4.4 Incremental leaps in inequitable income distribution

Colombia in 1960

Colombia

percentages

state power and revolutionary social change

4.2 A quarter-century of Colombian Gini coefficients

The potential for dual power in Colombia

Colombia

The FARC-EP as a unique Marxist social movement

Becoming the people’s army: The evolution of the FARC(-EP

1 Class-based taxation model employed by the FARC-EP 101

2.4 The FARC-EP’s interlinking support and solidarity structure

geography

with a conventional armed forces structure

extension, late 1950s to mid-1960s

1 Varying approaches toward (and outcomes from) the taking of

An evaluation of civilian support for the FARC-EP

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