Social Protests in Colombia by Mauricio Archila Neira & Camilo Ordoñez-Zambrano & A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Author:Mauricio Archila Neira & Camilo Ordoñez-Zambrano & A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498558884
Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES

From this complex perspective, we must address the paradox of two forces that had to coincide for the community of interests, but did not come together on many occasions: the left and the social actors.113 As we have already pointed out, the leftist organizations experienced a gap between the formal assessment of social actors and their demands, and a suspicion of them, if not a real disdain. This happened partly because the social struggle was considered as exclusively claiming, that is, limited in its objectives. In an expression that condensed the elitist mentality of the left, the social struggle was classified as backward, spontaneous, and immersed in the “drab everyday struggle” life, in Lenin’s words.114 For example, in a 1970 Insurreccion bulletin the ELN said:

… we reject the actions directed towards the “conquest” of better living conditions as revolutionary political objectives through the rise of wages, expropriations and invasions of land (…) etc., because, if it were possible, far from bringing the masses closer to the strategic objective, it would keep them away, leading them to conformism.115

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