Re: [Marxism] Carlos Rebello reviews Medvedev book on Post-Soviet Russia

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: [Marxism] Carlos Rebello reviews Medvedev book on
Remitido por: Louis Proyect
Fecha: Miércoles 22 de Septiembre de 2004 
Hora: 13:50
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> in entirely
> changed circumstances, most of the individual members of the major
> Latin American bourgeoisies, when hit by the economic crisis of the
> 1980s, came to forswear the efforts at economic modernization made by
> the populist and authoritarian governments of the preceding decades in
> favor of positions as compradors and junior partners in the globalized
> world economy of the 1990s, with no more effort at intellectual
> understanding than accepting Thatcherite commonplaces as common sense.

This is a most intelligent remark, indeed.

It would also be added that those relatively succesful attempts at 
self-centered capitalism in Latin America (in South America at least, 
witness Brazil or Argentina) also led to state-centered formations.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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