Neo-Developmentalism Beyond Neoliberalism? Capitalist Crisis and Argentina's Development Since the 1990s

MARIANO FÉLIZ

Historical Materialism

Brill

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2012

1465-4466

In a recent review article, Jeff Webber discusses a new contribution to the analysis of neostructuralism (Webber, 2010). As such, neostructuralism is described as the ideological and theoretical underpinning of most of the new ?progressive? governments that have been gaining support in several countries in Latin America, as part of the so-called pink tide. We believe such a discussion is very relevant to understand the nature of current socio-political transformations in the sub-continent particularly in the midst of the deep crisis of dominant capitalist spaces. As part of this debate we present a contribution that attempts to shed some light on Argentina?s conjuncture. We feel that the debate is particularly important especially regarding the nature of changes in the process of capitalist development in Argentina and the role of social forces in such changes. Clarifying the nature of the debate is of great relevance for all the new radical sociopolitical movements that are working towards social change in the region. This article is structured as follows. In section 2 we briefly describe the process of crisis of neoliberalism in Argentina and the original constitution of neo-developmentalism. In section 3 we present the main novelties regarding public policies discussing its ties to structural continuities and changes. In section 4 we discuss the way in which contradictions of this new form of capitalist development manifest and move. Finally, in section 5 we present some preliminary.