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Importance of an internationalist strategy for Mariategui’s “great fatherland”<br>
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=Reading materials=
=Reading materials=
* James Petras, 2010 [http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22223 Latin America’s Twenty First Century Capitalism and the US Empire]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22223
• Fernando Esteban, “The process is locked in its contradictions”, International Viewpoint, September 2008
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/index.php/spip.php?article1534
• Eric Toussaint, "Is Bolivia heading for Andean Amazonian Capitalism?", Europe Solidaire, 2009
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article16718
• Pedro Campos, “Cuba Needs A Participatory and Democratic Socialism”, Znet, april 2010
http://zcommunications.org/cuba-needs-a-participatory-and-democratic-socialism-by-pedro-campos-1
• Franck Gaudichaud, “When triumphant neoliberalism begins to crack. Reflexions on the awakening of social movements and the "Chilean May"”, International Viewpoint, november 2011
 
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2349
 
• Claudio Katz, “Latin America and the global crisis”, La Haine, 2010
http://www.lahaine.org/katz/b2-img/LATIN_AMERICA_AND_THE_GLOBAL_CRISIS.doc
• Claudio Katz, “Strategies of the Left in Latin America”, La Haine, 2007
http://www.lahaine.org/katz/b2-img/Strategies%20of%20the%20Left%20in%20Latin%20America.doc

Revision as of 11:02, 24 November 2011

Outline

Central concepts

  • Imperialism
  • Crisis of neoliberalism and new cycle of social struggles
  • Experiences of change and contradictions in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
  • Social-liberalism in Brazil and in other countries
  • Model of development, ecosocialism and indianism
  • Discussion on “socialism of the 21st Century

Geopolitical introduction

The crisis of neoliberalism in the region and the impact of the global crisis
The years 2000 : a new cycle of social and environmental struggles
Is the region representing new alternatives?

Latin America confronted with the giants of the North and with imperialism

Obama: towards a new rearticulation of imperialism
A strategically important region : natural resources and geopolitical position
A stronger autonomy but still relative
The imperial role of the European Union
The appearance of new actors coming from the South (Brazil/China)

New critical radicalism and class struggles

The speed of the cycles of struggle in Latin America
An explosive situation: the 4 great Latin American “rebellions”
Diversity of mobilised social actors
Importance of the indigenous movement
The example of the social movement for education in Chile

The “turn to the left”: myths, reality and ongoing processes

The “three ages” of Bolivarianism
Diversity of the left governments in Latin America
Advances and contradictions in the Bolivarian process (Venezuela)
Bolivia at the cross roads
Lessons from the experience of the PT in Brazil
Anticapitalist left, zapatism and bonapartism
A return of the right?

Return of the question of strategy and of the discussion on “21st Century Socialism”

What balance sheet of the revolutionary experiences in the 20th Century?
Reflection on the actual Cuban situation.
Pachamama, extractivism and ecosocialism: what model of development?
The question of integrations, an essential challenge for the creation of postcapitalist alternatives.
Take the power , revolutionise society? What transitional measures for Latin America?
Elements for the debate starting from the theories of J. Holloway
Importance of an internationalist strategy for Mariategui’s “great fatherland”

Reading materials

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22223 • Fernando Esteban, “The process is locked in its contradictions”, International Viewpoint, September 2008 http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/index.php/spip.php?article1534 • Eric Toussaint, "Is Bolivia heading for Andean Amazonian Capitalism?", Europe Solidaire, 2009 http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article16718 • Pedro Campos, “Cuba Needs A Participatory and Democratic Socialism”, Znet, april 2010 http://zcommunications.org/cuba-needs-a-participatory-and-democratic-socialism-by-pedro-campos-1 • Franck Gaudichaud, “When triumphant neoliberalism begins to crack. Reflexions on the awakening of social movements and the "Chilean May"”, International Viewpoint, november 2011

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2349

• Claudio Katz, “Latin America and the global crisis”, La Haine, 2010 http://www.lahaine.org/katz/b2-img/LATIN_AMERICA_AND_THE_GLOBAL_CRISIS.doc • Claudio Katz, “Strategies of the Left in Latin America”, La Haine, 2007 http://www.lahaine.org/katz/b2-img/Strategies%20of%20the%20Left%20in%20Latin%20America.doc