Description
The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America.
This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment.
Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post-neo-liberal regimes in Latin America are faltering, this supplementary text provides a guide to the economic and political dynamics of capitalist development in the region, which will be invaluable to students and researchers of international development, anthropology and sociology, as well as those with an interest in Latin American politics and development.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Class Struggle Back on the Agenda
Chapter 2 Extractivism and Resistance: A New Era
Chapter 3 Accumulation by Dispossession — and the Resistance
Chapter 4 The Progressive Cycle in Latin American Politics
Chapter 5 Argentina: The Return of the Right
with Mario Hernández
Chapter 6 Brazil: Class Struggle in the Countryside
João Márcio Mendes Pereira and Paulo Alentejano
Chapter 7 Democracy Without the Workers: 25 years of the Labour Movement and Mature Neoliberalism in Chile
Sebastián Osorio and Franck Gaudichaud
Chapter 8 Mexico: Dynamics of a Class War
Chapter 9 Paraguay: Class Struggle on the Extractive Frontier
Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Chapter 10 Peru: The Return of the Class Struggle from Below
Jan Lust
Chapter 11 Venezuela: In the Eye of the Storm
Chapter 12 The Return of the Right
Conclusion
