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The recent changes in Latin American politics have spurred many debates about the future of the region and balance of powers. The new approach has left many wondering how a leftward approach is going to affect the meaning of electoral elections? How are the new leaders and new policies going to affect foreign relations? What is Latin America going to be like when a leftist approach begins to spread? Several of the essays published in “Paradoxes of Revolution” provide a critical insight into the politics of the leftward movement(s) against the powerful forces of neoliberalism, the painful problems and struggles of people and movements that are not always well reflected in electoral politics, and the on going debates about the theoretical perspectives at wok in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Questioning Leftward Politics

Adam David Morton
Reflections on Uneven Development: Mexican Revolution, Primitive
Accumulation, Passive Revolution

Octavio Rodríguez Araujo
The Emergence and Entrenchment of a New Political Regime in Mexico

Gastón A. Alzate
Dramaturgy, Citizenship, and Queerness: Contemporary Mexican Political
Cabaret

Steve Ellner
Hugo Chávez’s First Decade in Office: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings

Clara Irazábal and John Foley
Reflections on the Venezuelan Transition from a Capitalist Representative to a
Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners to Do?

David Stoll
From Wage Migration to Debt Migration?: Easy Credit, Failure in El Norte, and
Foreclosure in a Bubble Economy of the Western Guatemalan Highlands

Sheryl Lutjens
Comment: Naming the Problem in Nebaj

Jan Rus
Comment: Financing Undocumented Migration and the Limits of Solidarity:
Unsettling Findings from Guatemala

Mayo C. Toruño
Comment: Debt and Migration: The Ixil in the Global Circuit of Capital

Paul Navarro
A Maoist Counterpoint: Peruvian Maoism Beyond Sendero Luminoso

Linda Allegro
Latino Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: "Illegality," State Controls, and
Implications for Transborder Labor Rights

Nicolas Grinberg
Where Is Latin America Going? FTAA or "Twenty-first-Century Socialism"?

Ronald Chilcote and Jan Rus
In Memoriam: Michael Kearney (1937—2009)

Some of the highlights in this issue:
Adam Morton, the first Latin American Perspectives Fellow in residence at UC Riverside, offers theoretical Insight into capitalist development and state formation during the Mexican Revolution. Morton seeks to explain state formation and the emergence of capitalist production by drawing upon a Gramscian understanding of the “international history of state formation and processes intrinsic to the modern world states-system”.

Mexico's 2006 Elections
Ocatavio Rodriguez Araujo places the 2006 Mexican elections and the striking aftermath in its historical context. Araujo also explains the state of politics in Mexico, the changes, such as the victory of the Partido Accion National (National Action Party)-PAN. Araujo also explain the shifts from an authoritarian statist-populist regime to a
somewhat less authoritarian neoliberal technocratic regime beginning in the early 1980?s, which characterized the earlier waning of the Bonapartist form of the state, the debilitation of the PRI and the overlapping of the old and new until the neoliberal technocratic regime achieved dominance.

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