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This chapter presents the objectives of this book, the method of class analysis that is used to help understand Peruvian political, economic, and social reality, and brief descriptions of the different chapters. It states that the particularity of capitalist development in Peru and the evolution of its class structures provide the objective conditions (and limitations) for the political practice of socialist organizations. Lust argues that it depends on the political practice of the revolutionary forces if these conditions are maintained, deepened, changed, or destroyed. The reasons why the socialist Left has not attained state power are principally related to the objective and subjective (class struggle, political organization, and political practice) conditions of capitalist development.
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Lust, J. (2019). Introduction. In: Capitalism, Class and Revolution in Peru, 1980-2016. Social Movements and Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91403-9_1
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