ABSTRACT
The dialectic between civilization and barbarism points to the path of perfection of the Latin American human spirit, putting at the service of the new criollo bourgeoisie the fruit of reason in opposition, and parallel, to a material and spiritual appropriation of the world, of nature. America struggles toward a state of "full civilization" in which the spirit of the American people can reach its maximum degree of perfection; a state that it seems to have reached precisely at the end of the nineteenth century. Latin American society is structured in a very similar way to what was happening in Europe, with the consolidation of new social sectors that little by little gained hegemony. Salaried workers and the petty bourgeoisie, the middle class, composed mainly of bureaucrats, liberal professionals, and skilled workers, indispensable to the new social structuring.
