Los caminos de la izquierda latinoamericana
One of the great themes of politics is recognizing when there is a change of epoch, when the new arises, what processes that movement prepares. Marx thought about these questions using the image of the mole: that short-sighted, sick and fragile, but gifted of great patience and stubbornness, which digs tunnels underground and, when least expected, breaks through and rises to the surface.
Emir Sader takes up this metaphor to define the very purpose of his book: The New Mole explores the recent processes of social transformation in Latin America and traces the concrete forms that the anti-capitalist struggle assumes today. To do this, it analyzes the governments of the region and the current political scenarios passing them through a critical and illuminating sieve. From there urgent questions arise: to what extent do these governments work to create a post-neoliberal order? How ...read more
