Latin America

Kornblihtt, J., & Casique Herrera, M. (2021). La crisis venezolana como expresión de la sobreproducción mundial de petróleo pesado [Venezuelan crisis as an expression of worldwide overproduction of heavy oil]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica, 7(14), 129-153.

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ABSTRACT: The analysis of the causes behind Venezuela’s current crisis ranges between blaming imperialism and its local allies for organizing an “economicwarfare” against the alleged popular politics and national independence of Maduro’s government and explaining its origins in government corruptionand wastefulness. All of these arguments obviate the global essence of the national forms of capitalism … Read more

Rivas Castro, G., & Casique Herrera, M. C. (2021). Marini y la economía política marxista de la dependencia. Una aproximación crítica a partir de su análisis del proceso chileno [Marini and the Marxist political economy of dependency. A critical approach from his analysis of the Chilean process]. Revista Izquierdas, 50, 1-26.

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ABSTRACT: In lights of the resurgence in South America of the Marxist version of dependency theory, especially of the theoretical developments by Ruy Mauro Marini and considering the criticisms that followed its reappearance, this present paper hopes to make a contribution in this last sense, to emphasize the limitations of Marxist Dependency Theory when presenting … Read more

Dachevsky, F., & Kornblihtt, J. (2020). La apropiación de renta de la tierra petrolera por el capital automotriz en Venezuela durante el chavismo y su crisis [The appropriation of oil ground-rent by automotive capitals in Venezuela along Chavism, and its crisis]. In G. A. Pinto, S. Guevara, & A. Arteaga García (Eds.), La industria automotriz en América Latina: Estudios de las relaciones entre trabajo, tecnología y desarrollo socioeconómico (pp. 272-298). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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ABSTRACT In this chapter, the automotive industry located in a country clearly specialized in oil production is studied. The authors analyze the features and behavior of the automotive sector in Venezuela, in light of the opportunities to participate in the appropriation of oil rent that terminal companies have had so far. The extremely low productivity … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2020). Fases del desarrollo de la industria automotriz argentina: Determinantes globales y especificidad nacional (1914-2017) [Phases in the development of Argentinean automotive industry: global determinants and national specificity (1914-2017)]. En G. A. Pinto, S. Guevara, & A. Arteaga García (Eds.), La industria automotriz en América Latina: Estudios de las relaciones entre trabajo, tecnología y desarrollo socioeconómico (pp. 57-80). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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ABSTRACT The chapter depicts the evolution of Argentinean automotive industry in order to: identify the various phases of its development, present its functioning mode in each of them and expose the determinants of the transitions from each phase to the one that followed. The resulting periodization distinguishes three phases. The first one goes from 1914 … Read more

Guevara, S. (2020). Transformaciones en las relaciones laborales y conflicto sindical: Formas concretas de la acumulación de capital en la industria automotriz argentina 1991-2015 [Transformations in labour relations and union struggle: concrete forms of capital accumulation in Argentinean automotive industry, 1991-2015]. In G. A. Pinto, S. Guevara, & A. Arteaga García (Eds.), La industria automotriz en América Latina: Estudios de las relaciones entre trabajo, tecnología y desarrollo socioeconómico (pp. 418-445). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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ABSTRACT Ever since the second half of the 20th century, the Argentinean automotive industry has been among those industrial sectors which most thoroughly express the specific form under which capital accumulation develops locally. In spite of a relative modernization during the 1990s, locally operating automotive capitals still feed their valorization process by the appropriation of … Read more

Pérez Trento, N., & Starosta, G. (2020). En torno al rol de la Argentina en la Nueva División Internacional del Trabajo. [On the role of Argentina in the New International Division of Labour]. Voces del Fénix, 80, 48–55.

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ABSTRACT With the consolidation of the capitalist mode of production, the process of social reproduction takes on a global character. Still, differences among the roles played by diverse countries are apparent. In this work, the authors offer a perspective on the role that Argentina plays in the process of global production, focusing especially on the … Read more

Rivas Castro, G., & Seiffer, T. (2021). Sobre el origen y desarrollo de la consciencia política del movimiento estudiantil universitario chileno. De su consciencia anarquista a su antiliberalismo. 1906-2012. [On the origin and development of the political consciousness of Chilean college students movement. From its anarchist consciousness to its antineoliberalism. 1906-2012]. Anuari del Conflicte Social, 12, 1-57

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ABSTRACT: The Chilean student movement imposed itself as an important political actor. In 2011, it was a lead character in the most massive and sustained political strike since the end of the dictatorship, which repercussions continues until this date. In this paper, we will seek to explain the social necessity for the political action of … Read more

Pérez Trento, N. (2020). En torno a las potencialidades y límites del enfoque (neo)extractivista respecto de la dinámica reciente de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina (1990-2016) [On the potentialities and limits of the (neo-)extractivist approach regarding the recent dynamics of capital accumulation in Argentina (1990-2016)]. Izquierdas, 49, 3974–3998.

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ABSTRACT In the context of the recurrent political oscillations that took place in the last decades in Latin America, a new approach strengthened among social sciences, which suggests the existence of an economic continuity: the intensification of the production of raw materials for the world market. This approach, which led to the characterization of these … Read more

Starosta, G., & Steimberg, R. (2019). El desarrollo capitalista latinoamericano desde la crítica de la economía política [Latin American capitalist development from the critique of political economy]. En O. Cavero (Ed.), El poder de las preguntas. Ensayos desde Marx sobre el Perú y el mundo contemporáneo (pp. 161–216). Lima: UCH Fondo Editorial.

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ABSTRACT El presente ensayo ofrece una mirada desde la crítica marxiana de la economía política a los debates sobre las particularidades de las sociedades latinoamericanas. Más concretamente, tras un breve examen de los primeros intentos de dar cuenta de dicha especificidad en los estudios originados en la Cepal y en el estructuralismo latinoamericano, el artículo … Read more

Seiffer, T., (2019). Pobreza [Poverty]. (En colaboración con Arakaki, A.). En I. Llovet & P. Scarponetti (Eds.), Estudio sobre condiciones de vida en la Argentina contemporánea (pp. 217-259). Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

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ABSTRACT Este capítulo hace una lectura crítica de las distintas explicaciones en torno a las causas de la pobreza en nuestro país. Intentamos ofrecer una lectura de las producciones en tanto formas de resolver lo que los autores fueron enfrentando a lo largo de la historia y en tanto parte de la disputa por su … Read more