HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Proletarian Revolution, Sharecropping, Conditionality
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Audio recording started: 12:02 pm monday, october 15, 2018. We started looking at the start of bolivian revolution. This victory of mnr came by way of spontaneous uprising of factory workers and tin miners. This is a proletarian revolution at least for the fighting part of it. We"re going to talk about what happens after 1952. Last time we saw that 3 big tin mines nationalized made the state the main actor in the economy. Keep in mind that state is running tin mines but outside forces place limits on this attempt at state-directed capitalism. It doesn"t necessarily run the tin industry the way that it wants to because you have labor unions and international commodity markets too. Even though 7/10 worked in agriculture, agriculture only contributed 31% of gnp. Agriculture lagged behind in efficiency and productivity because a lot of larger states were unproductive.