The Political Thought of Fernando Velasco Abad and the Revolutionary Workers' Movement

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Santiago Ortiz Crespo
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32719/9789942566607.7

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This text examines the ideas of Fernando Velasco Abad and the evolution of the Revolutionary Workers’ Movement (MRT) in the 1970s. It analyzes the movement’s debates with Christian Democrats and the Communist Party regarding marginalization and the country’s social structure. It also details the movement’s proposals regarding the mass line, the indigenous peasant struggle, and the relationship between democracy and socialism in the face of the return to constitutional rule. 

Author Biography

Santiago Ortiz Crespo, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Ecuador

Es doctor en Ciencias Sociales por FLACSO Ecuador. Sus líneas de investigación son: movimientos sociales, Estado, Municipios indígenas y proceso político en Ecuador. Docente de FLACSO Ecuador, cátedras de Movimientos Sociales y Formación del Estado en América Latina. Es autor de ¿Comuneros kichwas o ciudadanos ecuatorianos? (2012), Cotacachi: Una apuesta por la democracia participativa (2004), coordinador del libro Gramsci en Ecuador (2023) y editor y coautor de Narrativas, ciclos de protesta y repertorios de acción colectiva (2023). 

Portada de A las puertas de la revolución: Izquierdas revolucionarias en Ecuador, 1959-1989

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On the Brink of Revolution: Revolutionary Leftist Movements in Ecuador, 1959–1989

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303-353

Published

April 30, 2026

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Ortiz Crespo, Santiago. 2026. “The Political Thought of Fernando Velasco Abad and the Revolutionary Workers’ Movement”. In On the Brink of Revolution: Revolutionary Leftist Movements in Ecuador, 1959–1989, edited by Edgar Isch and Pablo Ospina Peralta, 303-53. Publications Office. https://doi.org/10.32719/9789942566607.7.