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Article: People's Kitchens and radical organizing in Lima, Peru.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1989
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PEOPLE'S KITCHENS AND RADICAL ORGANIZING IN LIMA, PERU
There seems to be a breaking point in semi-colonial situations where unemployed or underemployed poor outnumber the employed so much that new conditions for class struggle come into existence. Ditribution of goods and services becomes such as an acute problem that issues of exploitation per se take second place to issues of survival or reproduction. The crisis in the family and community reaches a point of no return. Those who are excluded from regular wage work play an increasingly important role in defining political agendas, paving the way for the revolutionary transformation of daily life, not only in the ...