Privateering, Piracy, and British Policy in Spanish America 1810–1830 by Matthew McCarthy (review)
cepts of reform, revolution, and democracy in ways antithetical to the polarized frameworks of Cold War political culture and discourse. Some on the left argued that the existing system was designed to prevent leftist revolutions from occurring and so could not be used toward revolutionary ends, and that counter-revolutionary violence would make peaceful revolution impossible. Right-wing elites considered Allende's approach an undemocratic and illegitimate violation of the status quo and an existential threat to the economic, political, and social systems that favored them. Figueroa Clark offers a measured explanation of how Allende came to understand revolution, reform, and democracy as mutually inclusive, based on his decades of experience in medicine, social policy, and national and international politics.