In this essay, José F. Ocampo of the Umversidad Nacional in Bogotá offers a historical and political framework for the articles which follow. Ocampo employs the theory of "new democracy" (sometimes referred to as Marxism-Leninism, or simply Maoism ) to analyze the current situation in Colombia. He presents the analysis of classes in Colombia; the strategy and tactics of the dominant classes; the spontaneous struggles of the oppressed classes; and the rise of a non-revisionist vanguard party of the proletariat.
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