The Peasant Revolution

Abstract

A few years ago there began to be great hopes of a new wind of change blowing through the Third World, a fresh impetus to socialism from the backlands. They were inspired by the Cuban success, following on the Chinese, and by Maoist revolutionary preaching; together these seemed to constitute a still more potent version, a New Testament, of Marxism, which having lost its way in Europe was having a rebirth outside.