Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy /

Crisis and contradiction : Marxist perspectives on Latin America in the global political economy / edited by Susan J. Spronk and Jeffery R. Webber. - 1 online resource - Historical Materialism Book Series . - Historical materialism book series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction -- Systemic Logics and Historical Specificity: Renewing Historical Materialism in Latin American Political Economy; Part 1 The 'New' Working Class: Decomposition and Recomposition under Neoliberalism; Chapter 2 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatisation in Bolivia: The 'New Working Class', the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services. Chapter 3 The Neo-Developmentalist Alternative: Capitalist Crisis, Popular Movements, and Economic Development in Argentina since the 1990sChapter 4 The Reproduction of Democratic Neoliberalism in Argentina: Kirchner's 'Solution' to the Crisis of 2001; Chapter 5 Doubly Marginalised? Women Workers in Northeast Brazilian Export Horticulture; Chapter 6 Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Rôle of the Party; Chapter 7 Venezuela's Social Transformation and Growing Class Struggle. Chapter 8 Socialist Management and Natural Resource Based Industrial Production: A Critique of Cogestión in VenezuelaPart 2 State and Market in Late Capitalist Development; Chapter 9 Conspicuous Silences: State and Class in Structuralist and Neostructuralist Thought; Chapter 10 Sugarcane Ethanol: The Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agribusiness and the State in Lula's Brazil; Chapter 11 From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America: The Cases of Brazil and Argentina; Chapter 12 The Three Dimensions of the Crisis. Chapter 13 Revolution against 'Progress': Neo-Extractivism, the Compensatory State, and the TIPNIS Conflict in BoliviaReferences; Index.

This volume focuses on changes to class formation and the state-form in Latin America. It explores the relationships between state and market in countries endowed with vast natural resource wealth such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela.


English.

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Economic development--Political aspects--Latin America.
Marxian economics--Latin America.
Développement économique--Aspect politique--Amérique latine.
Économie marxiste--Amérique latine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--International--Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--International--General.
Economic development--Political aspects.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Marxian economics.


Latin America--Economic conditions.
Latin America--Economic policy.
Amérique latine--Conditions économiques.
Amérique latine--Politique économique.
Latin America.


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