The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
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Showing posts with label July 2015 Issue. Show all posts
September 21, 2017
Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck
The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
May 9, 2017
Book Review, Today's Left in Power: Promises and Problems
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Today's Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review for Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Today's Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review for Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
April 20, 2017
Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck
The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
September 15, 2016
Book, "Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems" by Hobart A. Spalding
::::::Book Review::::::
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
August 18, 2016
Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck
The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
April 7, 2016
Book, "Past and Prospects of Imperial Geopolitics" by Francisco López Segrera
"Past and Prospects of Imperial Geopolitics"
by Francisco López Segrera
Book Review of:
América Latina en la geopolítica imperial
by Atilio Borón
LUXEMBURG 2012
ISBN: 978-987-1709-19-9
April 5, 2016
Book, "Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems" by Hobart A. Spalding
::::::Book Review::::::
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
March 22, 2016
Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck
The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
March 1, 2016
Book, "Labor History’s Transnational Turn: Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers" by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Labor History’s Transnational Turn. Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers
by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Book Review of:
Deborah Cohen Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 201. 328 pp.
Leon Fink (ed.) Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 480 pp.
Julie Greene The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal. New York: Penguin Press, 2009. 475 pp.
Kathleen López Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 340 pp.
September 15, 2015
Book, "Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems" by Hobart A. Spalding
::::::Book Review::::::
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Today’s Left in Power: Promises and Problems
by Hobart A. Spalding
Book Review of:
Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century.
by Steve Ellner (ed.)
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
September 11, 2015
Introduction by Marjorie Woodford Bray, Fundamental Change or More of the Same?
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Fundamental Change or More of the Same?
Introduction by Marjorie Woodford Bray
Determining whether the current situation of Latin America is better described as “post-neoliberalism” or as “commodities consensus” requires an analysis of recent changes in the region. Capitalism has expanded in agriculture and mining, accentuating the preeminence of basic exports. Traditional industry is declining, and remittances and tourism have increased in importance. Local capitalists associated with foreign corporations have replaced the national bourgeoisie, while the exodus of peasants consolidates labor precariousness, poverty, and inequality. At the same time, the United States is deploying troops to reorganize its domination. The South American rebellions have limited neoliberal aggression and achieved unusual victories in other parts of the world. The concept of post-neoliberalism emphasizes the region’s political turn toward autonomy but overlooks the persistence of the economic model generated during the previous phase. The opposing concept, commodities consensus, highlights the extractivism prevailing throughout the region but plays down the extreme divergences among right-wing, center-left, and radical governments in all other areas. Both concepts contain part of the truth, but neither fully explains the regional scenario.
Introduction by Marjorie Woodford Bray
Determining whether the current situation of Latin America is better described as “post-neoliberalism” or as “commodities consensus” requires an analysis of recent changes in the region. Capitalism has expanded in agriculture and mining, accentuating the preeminence of basic exports. Traditional industry is declining, and remittances and tourism have increased in importance. Local capitalists associated with foreign corporations have replaced the national bourgeoisie, while the exodus of peasants consolidates labor precariousness, poverty, and inequality. At the same time, the United States is deploying troops to reorganize its domination. The South American rebellions have limited neoliberal aggression and achieved unusual victories in other parts of the world. The concept of post-neoliberalism emphasizes the region’s political turn toward autonomy but overlooks the persistence of the economic model generated during the previous phase. The opposing concept, commodities consensus, highlights the extractivism prevailing throughout the region but plays down the extreme divergences among right-wing, center-left, and radical governments in all other areas. Both concepts contain part of the truth, but neither fully explains the regional scenario.
September 8, 2015
Book, "Past and Prospects of Imperial Geopolitics" by Francisco López Segrera
"Past and Prospects of Imperial Geopolitics"
by Francisco López Segrera
Book Review of:
América Latina en la geopolítica imperial
by Atilio Borón
LUXEMBURG 2012
ISBN: 978-987-1709-19-9
September 1, 2015
Book, "The Rise of the Left" by Ronaldo Munck
The Rise of the Left
by Ronaldo Munck
Book Review of:
The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left
by Emir Sader
London and New York: Verso, 2011.
August 31, 2015
Abstract, Ruta Mixteca Indigenous Rights and Mexico’s Plunge into Globalization by Rodolfo Stavenhagen
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Ruta Mixteca
Indigenous Rights and Mexico’s Plunge into Globalization by Rodolfo Stavenhagen
“Ruta Mixteca” is the name given to the circular migrations of indigenous farm workers between the Mexican state of Oaxaca and California long studied by Michael Kearney and his collaborators. Indigenous migrations to the United States have expanded in recent years as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement and changes in Mexico’s agrarian legislation that led to increased privatization of land and natural resources, dispossession of the traditional peasantry, and numerous local land- and resource-related conflicts. The Zapatista uprising stimulated the growth of a host of militant indigenous organizations, now also emboldened by constitutional changes that recognize the human rights of indigenous peoples according to international standards. Indigenous transnational migrations need to adapt to these changing conditions.
August 28, 2015
Abstract, Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? by Ronaldo Munck
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by Ronaldo Munck
It could be argued that Latin America is currently at a crossroads every bit as fundamental as that of the 1930s. While according to some the region has escaped the worst impacts of the Great Recession, for others the model of extractive capitalism is simply not sustainable. Clearly there is a new left hegemony emerging, but for many analysts the left’s efforts have been insufficient and have simply continued the neoliberal economic model. A rethinking of Latin America from the perspective of three somewhat disparate thinkers who were shaped by the crisis of 1929—José Carlos Mariátegui, Antonio Gramsci, and Karl Polanyi—can help us reimagine a progressive way forward.
by Ronaldo Munck
It could be argued that Latin America is currently at a crossroads every bit as fundamental as that of the 1930s. While according to some the region has escaped the worst impacts of the Great Recession, for others the model of extractive capitalism is simply not sustainable. Clearly there is a new left hegemony emerging, but for many analysts the left’s efforts have been insufficient and have simply continued the neoliberal economic model. A rethinking of Latin America from the perspective of three somewhat disparate thinkers who were shaped by the crisis of 1929—José Carlos Mariátegui, Antonio Gramsci, and Karl Polanyi—can help us reimagine a progressive way forward.
August 24, 2015
Abstract: The Strategic Integration of Latin America: A Disputed Project, Article by Giuseppe Lo Brutto and Carlos Otto Vázquez Salazar
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Commentary
by Giuseppe Lo Brutto and Carlos Otto Vázquez Salazar
The integration of Latin America and the Caribbean is a disputed process. In the new phase of integration represented by the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América and the Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, the control of natural resources has acquired central importance in a global scenario characterized by hegemonic reconfiguration and a tendency toward the creation of a multipolar world. For the integration to be viable, it must overcome the extractivist model and establish new forms of state-society relations.
by Giuseppe Lo Brutto and Carlos Otto Vázquez Salazar
The integration of Latin America and the Caribbean is a disputed process. In the new phase of integration represented by the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América and the Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, the control of natural resources has acquired central importance in a global scenario characterized by hegemonic reconfiguration and a tendency toward the creation of a multipolar world. For the integration to be viable, it must overcome the extractivist model and establish new forms of state-society relations.
August 21, 2015
Abstract, Commentary by Luis Suárez Salazar, Latin American and Caribbean Dualities or Complexities?
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Commentary
by Luis Suárez Salazar
Claudio Katz’s focus on “Latin America” omits consideration of the internal and external processes currently under way in the 12 politically independent states and 14 territories of the Caribbean, which do not share the “Latin” culture but are still subject to various forms of colonial domination by the United States, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Further, the term “dualities” seems inadequate to characterize the complexities that shape the dynamics between revolution, reform, reformism, counterreform, and counterrevolution currently unfolding in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, I agree with many of the perspectives of his essay, especially when he indicates, in conclusion, that the categories “post-liberalism” and “commodities consensus,” while containing parts of “the truth,” do not explain the diversity of the political processes that, from the triumph and consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution to the present, have been occurring in various Latin American and Caribbean countries. I also concur with his assertions that “the action of a government has limited effects on capitalist accumulation” and that “the modification of an economic model and an international position go far beyond presidents and their economic policies,” since governments “emerge from the history and political tradition of each country in correspondence with the needs of their ruling classes and the outcomes of social struggles.”
by Luis Suárez Salazar
Claudio Katz’s focus on “Latin America” omits consideration of the internal and external processes currently under way in the 12 politically independent states and 14 territories of the Caribbean, which do not share the “Latin” culture but are still subject to various forms of colonial domination by the United States, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. Further, the term “dualities” seems inadequate to characterize the complexities that shape the dynamics between revolution, reform, reformism, counterreform, and counterrevolution currently unfolding in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, I agree with many of the perspectives of his essay, especially when he indicates, in conclusion, that the categories “post-liberalism” and “commodities consensus,” while containing parts of “the truth,” do not explain the diversity of the political processes that, from the triumph and consolidation of the Bolivarian Revolution to the present, have been occurring in various Latin American and Caribbean countries. I also concur with his assertions that “the action of a government has limited effects on capitalist accumulation” and that “the modification of an economic model and an international position go far beyond presidents and their economic policies,” since governments “emerge from the history and political tradition of each country in correspondence with the needs of their ruling classes and the outcomes of social struggles.”
August 17, 2015
Abstract: Commentary by Ronaldo Munck, Whither Latin America?
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Commentary
by Ronaldo Munck
The time is ripe to (re)consider Latin America from a holistic perspective. Not all would agree with the assumption by Katz, in his broad review of current events and tendencies, that Latin America can be treated a whole, but I think it is at least a good starting point. Katz poses two alternative overarching perspectives against which he advances his own positions. One is the post-neoliberal approach, for which the Washington Consensus is well and truly in the past and a more equitable development perspective beckons. The other, which is shared to some extent by Katz but from which he distances himself in the end, is the commodities consensus view, according to which Latin America is being re-primarized under a new global order that condemns the region to extractivism rather than production. Katz recognizes that in the present global crisis Latin America is not going the way of the 1930s. Much has changed, and, for example, as he argues, Brazil has more in common with Spain than with Ecuador. The “Empire” still rules, however, and Katz mentions the various U.S. bases and involvement in the misnamed “war on drugs.” Coercion is still seen as a major means for maintaining the subjection and dependency of Latin America.
by Ronaldo Munck
The time is ripe to (re)consider Latin America from a holistic perspective. Not all would agree with the assumption by Katz, in his broad review of current events and tendencies, that Latin America can be treated a whole, but I think it is at least a good starting point. Katz poses two alternative overarching perspectives against which he advances his own positions. One is the post-neoliberal approach, for which the Washington Consensus is well and truly in the past and a more equitable development perspective beckons. The other, which is shared to some extent by Katz but from which he distances himself in the end, is the commodities consensus view, according to which Latin America is being re-primarized under a new global order that condemns the region to extractivism rather than production. Katz recognizes that in the present global crisis Latin America is not going the way of the 1930s. Much has changed, and, for example, as he argues, Brazil has more in common with Spain than with Ecuador. The “Empire” still rules, however, and Katz mentions the various U.S. bases and involvement in the misnamed “war on drugs.” Coercion is still seen as a major means for maintaining the subjection and dependency of Latin America.
August 14, 2015
Abstract: Commentary by Michael Löwy, Latin America: A Socialist Alternative to Neoliberalism
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Commentary:
by Michael Löwy
Katz’s brilliant article about the current economic and social situation in Latin America is not an economic study in strict academic terms but an original and broadly documented analysis of the economic, social, and political dynamics of the continent.
by Michael Löwy
Katz’s brilliant article about the current economic and social situation in Latin America is not an economic study in strict academic terms but an original and broadly documented analysis of the economic, social, and political dynamics of the continent.
August 11, 2015
Book, "Labor History’s Transnational Turn: Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers" by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Labor History’s Transnational Turn. Rethinking Latin American and Caribbean Migrant Workers
by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Book Review of:
Deborah Cohen Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 201. 328 pp.
Leon Fink (ed.) Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 480 pp.
Julie Greene The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal. New York: Penguin Press, 2009. 475 pp.
Kathleen López Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 340 pp.
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