Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean (review)
By now it is obvious that this book is a splendid contribution. But it is also welcome, necessary, and timely as extreme right-wing politics, authoritarianism, and party-led totalitarian states in the world are reasserting themselves. Currendy, many democratic states are embarrassed to assert any democratic mission. Now it is up to tlie transnational generation to find ways to end die eternal, perverse, misguided flirtation with pseudo-orders, nationalisms, and the purification of the body of politics and again to appreciate the ordinariness of the democratic individual. If Churchill or Roosevelt had allowed a partial peace to end World War II, instead of total surrender, the Argentine politics described in this book would have joined Brazilian integralism to further autonomous fascist traditions in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes. Finchelstein's wonderful work paints a haunting image.