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Drawing on previously unknown or unassimilated sources, Donald C.
Hodges here presents an entirely new interpretation of the politics
and philosophy of Augusto C. Sandino, the intellectual progenitor
of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution. The first part of the book
investigates the political sources of Sandino's thought in the
works of Babeuf, Buonarroti, Blanqui, Proudhon, Bakunin, Most,
Malatesta, Kropotkin, Ricardo Flores Magon, and Lenin-a mixed
legacy of pre-Marxist and non-Marxist authoritarian and libertarian
communists. The second half of the study scrutinizes the philosophy
of nature and history that Sandino made his own. Hodges delves
deeply into this philosophy as the supreme and final expression of
Sandino's communism and traces its sources in the Gnostic and
millenarian occult undergrounds. This results in a rich study of
the ways in which Sandino's revolutionary communism and communist
spirituality intersect-a spiritual politics that Hodges presents as
more realistic than the communism of Karl Marx. While accepting the
current wisdom that Sandino was a Nicaraguan liberal and social
reformer, Hodges also makes a persuasive case that Sandino was
first and foremost a communist, although neither of the Marxist nor
anarchist variety. He argues that Sandino's eclectic communist
spirituality was more of an asset than a liability for
understanding the human condition, and that his spiritual politics
promises to be more relevant than Marxism-Leninism for the
twenty-first century. Indeed, Hodges believes that Sandino's
holistic communism embraces both deep ecology and feminist
spirituality-a finding that is sure to generate lively and
productive debate.
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