The Campesino Road to Socialism? The Sandinistas and Rural Co-operatives

Abstract

In the agricultural countries of the periphery, revolutions have generally been based on a wide class alliance comprising those sectors known as the 'third social force'. Every analysis of the popular character of a revolutionary process implies raising the question of the class nature of the state, and what system of alliances it represents. Such an analysis also entails the evolution of the country's correlation of forces and its relation to external enemies, as well as to imperialist aggression which nearly always accompanies liberation struggles.