ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to some of the categories and concepts discarded by large sectors of the left: class structure, class power, class struggle, and their impact on the state. These scientific categories continue to be of key importance to understanding what is going on in each country. Neoliberal ideology was the dominant classes' response to the considerable gains achieved by the working and peasant classes between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s. In the establishment of class alliances, states play a key role. US foreign policy, for example, is oriented towards supporting the dominant classes of the South. These alliances include, on many occasions, personal ties among members of the dominant classes. The left-wing alternative must be centered in alliances among the dominated classes and other dominated groups, with a political movement that must be built upon the process of class struggle that takes place in each country.
