Marx in Latin America in the 21st Century. Dependency, popular power and value-theory

FÉLIZ, MARIANO

Berlin

Congreso; Congreso Marx200 "Politics-Theory-Socialism"; 2018

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung / Berlin

The global capitalist crisis has had a huge impact in the so-calledneodevelopmentalist processes of capitalist development in South America. Inparticular, in Argentina the combination of local barriers and limits (originated in theparticular form of dependent development) with regional and global events, have putinto question the continuity of this particular way of capitalist strategy fordevelopment.We propose to analyze this process and its current transitional crisis in the light ofclass conflict and the particular form of dependent capitalism in Argentina. We willstress the way in which the articulation of (a) class relationships and struggles with(b) patriarchal rule (and struggles against it) and (c) super-exploitation of nature (andclashes to stop it), amount to a particular form for working class strategies for radicalsocial change.We will analyze the particular form of these struggles and the way in which theyconstitute and -at the same time- put into question, the production and reproductionof capitalist value in Argentina?s dependent setting.