(Ebook) What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis by Dan La Botz ISBN 9789004291300, 9789004291317, 900429130X, 9004291318

(Ebook) What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution: A Marxist Analysis by Dan La Botz ISBN 9789004291300, 9789004291317, 900429130X, 9004291318

This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (the Sandinistas), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN's lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN's lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.