How Long to Read The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica

How Long Does it Take to Read The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica by Nelson W. Keith

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Description

In 1974, following a successful parliamentary election, Michael Manley and his People's National Party took Jamaica onto a self-proclaimed democratic socialist path. The project failed even prior to the subsequent electoral defeat of the PNP in 1980. This short-lived experiment has evoked considerable interest among development scholars. In this book, Nelson Keith and Novella Keith challenge current interpretations of Jamaican events and develop an alternative theoretical model: national popularism. Without dismissing the negative machinations by the United States, internal mismanagement, and a variety of other problems, the authors argue that the events in question speak less of a failure of socialism than of the fragility of a national class alliance that coalesced temporarily, amidst a crisis, around a "new" politics. While incorporating radical impulses "from below" as well as socialist policies, the new politics was rooted in liberal democratic strains that had evolved historically in ways that could accommodate these impulses. The Manley project can thus be better understood as the "management" of peripheral capitalism rather than a budding socialism, for which there were few supports in the society. In their rich historical analysis of race and class in Jamaica, the authors trace the emergence and demise of progressive "alternative paths to development" in the Third World. Their approach provides a model for class analysis that avoids over-reliance on economic factors, gives socio-historical elements their full due, and contributes to a reassessment of significant events in Jamaican history. The authors' conceptual model allows important insights to surface that are obscured in the discourse on "socialism and its failure." There was, in particular real cultural and ideological change in Jamaica in the 1970s, as the Rastafarian worldview made inroads into an erstwhile neo-colonial culture.

How long is The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica?

The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica by Nelson W. Keith is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica aloud.

What Reading Level is The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica?

The Social Origins of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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