Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: A by Juan Pablo Ferrero (auth.)

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Nation-states do not disappear, but instead interact alongside transnational corporations and global nongovernmental organizations in the institution and conservation of the new world order. There is therefore a dislocation of the role of the state, which acquires managerial functions 28 DEMOCRACY AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM IN ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL through the production of complex systems of governance and multiple forms of domination, but not necessarily determining the institution of social order.

The criticism rests on the actual radical constructivism of RD, which rejects any ontological relation permeating the constitution of the political identities. ”133Current transformations are just another system modification of (boom and bust) capitalism itself and not the consequences of a new social order. Social classes cannot disappear as long as capitalism is also finished. New social movements are the expression of late-capitalist societies that have destroyed working-class industries but that cannot become a substitute for the working class.

Ethnic conflicts, separatism, peace movements, indigenous movements, student revolts, and green organizations were among the many expressions of discontent that gained public visibility alongside workers’ protests. This transformation marked the appearance of a new stable feature, such as the protest movements, in the context of the transformation of the landscape of disagreement. The above-mentioned global transformation in turn inspired radical philosophical and theoretical rethinking, which could be observed in the revision of notions such as history, class, and state.

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