ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in the past and the present, the perspectives for liberation were and are ambiguous--neither inevitable victories nor defeats. It discusses three possible moments of change leading up to the present: the 1960s and early 1970s and the potential for transformation in the crises of the national-populist period; the 1980s and the crises of the transition from military rule; and the contemporary period and the crises of neoliberalism. The chapter focuses on analyzing and discussing the "ambiguities" in the contemporary period: the deepening crises of neoliberalism and the more radical application of neoliberal measures; the increasing "subjective" rejection of neoliberalism and the forms of adaptation. It concludes by examining the theoretical and practical basis for liberation in Latin America today. Today, we have for the first time in this century the objective bases for international solidarity among workers in the advanced capitalist countries and the exploited in the Third World.
