ABSTRACT
The chapters in this book are organized around ten interrelated theses that link the growth of oppositional movements to the intellectual political debates and strategies occurring in Latin America. The uneven and unequal development and crises provoked by neoliberal policies have narrowed the social base of support for such policies. There are several lines of debate that influence the political alignments: the debates between neoliberals and their intellectual adversaries; between Marxists and pragmatic critics of neoliberalism; and between the past and the present generation of opponents of neoliberalism. Small-scale projects and reforms are neither viable nor effective in dealing with the systemic imperatives of neoliberalism. Electoral politics have been ineffectual as a vehicle for realizing progressive social changes. Political parties that were on the Left in the 1970s and 1980s have moved to the Right in the 1990s. The right-wing drift of the Left does not respond to the needs of their original lower-class constituents.
