n the Global South is one for autonomy against an entrenched landowning aristocracy that is backed by a military against which organizations of a revolutionary if not necessarily socialist or communist nature must contend. Menchu (231) says that "our idea is to put into practice the methods initiated by the masses when they evolved their people's weapons: to be able to make Molotov cocktails to fight the army, to use their knowledge."
Analysts exploring these issues, including Howard Handelman (148-149), make the case that in countries of the Global South, the struggle for liberation is often initiated among agrarian people who experience the oppression initiated by landlords in Latin America and elsewhere who continue to exercise enormous influence. Handelman (153) contends that "in many areas of the Third World where land ownership
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