Retrato de una ausencia

Aluvión de Fuego de Oscar Cerruto es una novela que relata las vicisitudes de Mauricio Santa Cruz, un joven hijo de terratenientes que descubre un mundo ideológico más allá de su entorno social y familiar. Abandona la ciudad de La Paz, donde vive con su familia, para enrolarse en la guerra que Bolivia entabla en territorio del Chaco contra Paraguay. Sin embargo, nunca llega a la región en conflicto, sino que su aventura se restringe al altiplano boliviano. Este viaje, que es geográfico e ideológico, lo transformará de un sujeto burgués a un sujeto revolucionario. Mauricio muere,...

London penned this book while living in Oakland, CA and running for Mayor as a Socialist, He expounds his theories of government and economics. This book is very important since it is an American's view of a socialist society in the United States. Socialism was a political force on the American scene for decades before and after the turn of the century. Jack London was well known for his politcal views and this book sums it up. Eugene Debs was another activist and writer from this dynamic socialist period before the Bolshevic Revolution in Russia. A Collector's Edition.

Parties are the major actors of political representation in democracies. They have been acknowledged repeatedly as the critical link between voters, representatives and guarantors of democratic governance. Without them, a democracy can hardly be said to exist because they are the principal links between government and society. However, parties can lose their representative capacity, and be challenged by disaffected electorates that pursue other alternatives for political involvement. This book focuses upon the electoral weakening of Latin America's traditional parties. These parties dominated ...

La escuela es un aparato ideológico del estado, es decir, un instrumento de lucha de clases marcado por las condiciones históricas del país donde se efectúa esta lucha, así como por las formas concretas que toma. La escuela capitalista va unida al capitalismo y debe desaparecer con él. Este proceso, largo y difícil, ha sido ya iniciado en muchos países del mundo y por ello un estudio como éste es aplicable a procesos semejantes que se cumplen en los países de nuestra América que viven bajo este mismo sistema.