ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the dynamics of class struggle and resistance on the extractive frontier. In the context of these dynamics some parts of the rural population in the region have been mobilized in protest against the advance of extractive capital in the capitalist development process. They have undertaken a variety of collective actions against the destructive operations and negative impacts of large-scale foreign investments in agro-extraction—the acquisition of land and the extraction of natural resources for export. The chapter analyses the conflict dynamics of these forces of resistance, forces that pit the multinational corporations in the extractive sector, and also the governments that have licensed their operations, against the rural communities most directly impacted by the destructive operations of extractive capitalism.
