Background
Harnecker, a descendant of Austrian immigrants, was a Roman Catholic in her childhood.
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Marta Harnecker
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She visited Cuba in 1960
After studying with Louis Althusser in Paris she returned to her native Chile. Upon her return to Chile in 1968, she got caught up in the fall of president Salvador Allende and the coup by General Augusto Pinochet and was forced into exile. In Cuba she founded and runs the research institute Memoria Popular Latinoamerica (MEPLA) and continues to write.
A book which could be very useful to everyone.
- Hugo Chavez, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Essential reading for all those who are trying to revive the left to meet new challenges. - Samir Amin about Rebuilding the Left.
Full of observations, analyses and reflections which are extremely useful for the times we live in. Harnecker’s personal knowledge of so many social and political movements makes this book particularly important.
- Francois Houtart about Rebuilding the Left.
Foreign Harnecker, politics is the art of discovering the potential in the present in order to make possible tomorrow what appears impossible today. In this book she does just this for Latin America and, in particular, Venezuela. But first she ditches the dogmas of the past with a disarming frankness.
The result is an original and valuable contribution to rethinking left politics.
- Hilary Wainwright about Rebuilding the Left.
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To me, this is a book which speaks out to proponents of socialist revolution and ordinary people. In the chapter dealing with the organic crisis in the left, Harnecker analyzes what has happened and makes some very important proposals about political organization. This book is an illuminating overview of the revolutionary left, particularly in Latin America, and its failings in the second part of the 20th century.
