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At the same time, Indonesian Communists (PKI) were relapsing into a kind of “folk communism” (Benda 1966; McVey 1970). Lacking an organizational weapon, this left the party prey to destruction in the army coup of 1965. In India, in contrast, where Communist parties had to deal with caste and religious differences as well as class and agrarian cleavages, there were both 60 61 revisionist and sectarian distortions (Overstreet and Windmuller 1959; Zagoria 1971). Once Marxist leaders compromised Marx‟s single-minded focus on the proletariat, they were prone to lose their way.
Tilly left us before he could complete his project of constructing a unified analytical framework to study contentious politic. But in his analysis of state building and capitalism, he moved toward a closer linkage between structural processes like capitalism and state building and “local” mechanisms and processes than anyone working in the field of contentious 53 54 politics. For example, Tilly argued that war – the most extreme form of contention – was at the origin of the state-building projects of early modern Europe (Tilly 1990).
Htm, visited on April 25, 2011. htm, visited on April 25, 2011. 3 Maheu is best known by anglophone audiences for his edited book, Social Movements and Social Classes: The Future of Collective Action. Sage Publications, 1995. 4 For literature reviews that survey these developments in more detail, see McAdam et al. 2009. For a more sustained presentation of this tradition, see della Porta and Diani 1999. 5 Of the many writers on dependency theory, the most notable are: its founder, economist Raúl Prebisch (1950, its major American proponent, Paul Baran (1957) and two major Latin American proponents, Celso Furtado (1964) and sociologists and later President of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1979).