TY - JOUR AU - Ellner, Steve AB - in The MAS Venezuela Party by Ellner* Steve From the of Marx to the socialist have at- days present, parties to arrive at a correct balance in their work between tempted political around concrete demands and diffusion of agitation ideological based on the socialist ideal. Leftist theoreticians have propaganda over the that should be on these two forms disagreed emphasis placed of Marx criticized the Socialists for political activity. Utopian avoiding the class and to achieve socialism by struggle attempting solely around the of their communities. example experimental propagandizing At the other in his celebrated What is to be extreme, Lenin, Done, attacked the &dquo;economists&dquo; for that trade union militance assuming would transform itself into socialist and consciousness, automatically for thus education of the workers as discarding ideological unnecessary This dilemma has also confronted Latin (Miliband, 1977: 40, 165-166). American leftists. Jose Carlos one of the continent’s Mariategui, Marxist maintained that the rural Indians in his thinkers, outstanding native Peru would as a element in the establishment of emerge key not the for but rather as socialism, reform, through struggle agrarian a result of their Incan that imbued them with a sense of col- heritage lective and consciousness. Thus TI - The MAS Party in Venezuela JF - Latin American Perspectives: A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism DO - 10.1177/0094582X8601300205 DA - 1986-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-mas-party-in-venezuela-iPyexx6R0c SP - 81 EP - 107 VL - 13 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -