Utopia and the dialectic in Latin American liberation /

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Author / Creator:	Gogol, Eugene, 1942- author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:	ix, 442 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences volume 78 Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 78.
Subject:	Utopias -- Latin America. Dialectic. Social movements -- Latin America. Dialectic. Social movements. Utopias. Latin America.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10448067

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ISBN:	9789004230507 9004230505 9789004297166
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. From this theoretical-philosophical plane, the study moves to the liberation practices of social movements in recent Latin American history. Movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, Indigenous feminism throughout the Americas, Indigenous struggles Bolivia, and Colombia, are among those taken up - most often in the words of the participants. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Utopia and the Dialectic as Contested Terrain
II. The Present Moment
III. Origins-Dunayevskaya and the Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy
IV. Structure of the Present Study
Part 1. Philosophic Foundations
1. The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America
I. "The Right to One's (Latin America's) Own Utopia"
II. "Utopia as Space (Place) of Social Resistance"
III. Utopia and Latin American Thinkers
2. Dialectical Thought-from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day?
I. Moments in the Hegelian Dialectic
II. Marx-Hegel-from "Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic" to Capital
III. Lenin-Hegel-Philosophical Preparation for Revolution?
Iv. Dunayevskaya-Hegel-Reading Absolute Negativity "As New Beginning"
3. Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America?
I. Preliminary Note: The Dialectic of Universal-Particular-Individual Reaching toward Utopias-Projects-Masses
II. The Challenge in Practice and in Theory: Will Latin America Arrive Only on the Threshold of a New Society, or Enter into the Realm of Absolute Liberation?
III. How Do a Latin American Concept of Utopia and the Dialectic of Absolute Negativity Speak to Each Other?
Part 2. The State and Social Movements in Latin America
4. Haiti, 1986-1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression
I. Haiti was the First: A Brief Note on the Significance of the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804
II. Haiti in Books and in Life
III. Theology of Liberation in Concrete Practice: Aristide's Sermons and Actions
IV. Epilogue: Post-the Jan. 12, 2012 Earthquake
5. The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela-Advances, Contradictions, Questions
I. The Passing of Hugo Chavez
II. Preliminary Moments: The Oil Addiction; The First Period of the Chavez Government
III. Under the Whip of the Counter-Revolution a Revolutionary Process Begins
IV. Chavez's Call to Build "21st Century Socialism"-What is Its Meaning? How Can It Move "Beyond Capital"? Who are the Social Subjects of Revolutionary Change? What is the Role of the State? The Unions? The Party?
V. The Venezuelan Debate on 21st Century Socialism: Relation of Party and Mass Movement; What Kind of Party? What Kind of Leadership? The Role of the Intellectual: Excerpts from Forum on "Intellectuals, Socialism and Democracy"
VI. Is There a Missing Ingredient in Venezuela Today?
6. Mexico's Revolutionary Forms of Organization: The Zapatistas and the Indigenous Autonomous Communities in Resistance
I. Indigenous and Zapatista Organizational Praxis-The Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands
II. Anti-Capitalist and from the Left: The 6th Declaration and La Otra Campana
III. Once Again, the Building of Autonomy in Rebel Lands: The Second Encuentro of the Zapatistas and the Peoples of the World-The Power of Indigenous Voices in Rebellion
IV. The Zapatistas and Mexico's Left Intellectuals
Appendix 1. Zapatista Document: Them and Us-v Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Appendix 2. Zapatista Document: Them and Us-VI Subcomandante Insurgente Moises
7. Bolivia: In Revolutionary Transformation, 2000-2005; The Pull of State-Capitalism, 2006-2013
I. The Revolutionary Social Process, 2000-2005
II. What Happens After? Social Movements under the Threat of State-ism and Neoliberalism in Unity, 2006-2013
Part 3. Revolutionary Processes in Latin America: Voices from Below
8. Social Movements in Argentina
I. Background
II. The Movement of the Unemployed
III. The Movement of "Recovered Factories"
IV. The Meaning of the Protests of December 2001 and the Mobilizations of 2002
V. The Local Assemblies
VI. Attempts by the New Government and the Dominant Classes to Resolve the Crisis
VII. The Cooptation of Sectors of Intellectuals, Human Right Organizations and a Part of the Left
VIII. Other Measures Used by the Ruling Classes in order to Solve the Crisis of Legitimacy
IX. In a Way, a Provisional Conclusion
Appendix: Excerpts from an interview with Paula, an Argentine feminist and member of the Gay, Lesbian, Transvestite, Transgender, and Bisexual (Glttb) Collective
9. Indigenous Struggles for Territory, Autonomy and Natural Resources
I. The Meaning of Autonomy in Mexico: The Case of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala
II. The Nasa: Subjects of Dignity
Appendix: Interview with Nasa Activists
III. The Community Police in Guerrero An Interview with Marciano, an Indigenous Mixtec, on His Work and Experience
10. Women as Force and Reason of Social Transformations
I. Feminisms and Liberations in Our America [Nuestra América]
II. The Role of Women in the Struggle for Autonomy in Mexico
Appendix 1. Women in the Montana Region of Guerrero: The Other Arm of Community Justice
Appendix 2. Political Statement of the Xinka Communitarian Feminist Women: There is No Decolonialization without Depatriarchalization!
11. Youth, Popular Education, Teachers
I. The TIPNIS March; New Horizons for Popular Education
II. On Urban Resistance and Processes of Formation of Subjects for Emancipatory Action: An Examination of the Cultural Breakthrough Brought about by the Medellin Youth Network, 1991-2011
III. The Battle for Oaxaca: Repression and Revolutionary Resistance
Appendix 1. Yo Soy #132
Appendix 2. Chilean Student Protests
Appendix 3. The Books of the Zapatista Little School Zapatistas from the Indigenous Communities in Resistance
Part 4. Battle of Ideas and Practices; Conclusions
12. Horizontal-ism, State-ism, Marxism and the Indigenous Dimension-Raul Zibechi, Alvaro Garcia Linera, Hugo Blanco
I. Raul Zibechi, Chronicler of Latin America in Social Rebellion
II. The Statist Marxism of Álvaro García Linera
III. Hugo Blanco-Peruvian Revolutionary: From Trotskyism and the Peasantry to the Indigenous Movement for Land and Mother Earth
Appendix 1. The Organization and Building of Mass Power: Horizontalism and Verticalism, Utopia and Project
Appendix 2. The "Top-Down" State and the "Bottom-Up" State
13. The Zapatistas and the Dialectic
I. "The Time of the No and the Time of the Yes"
II. The Zapatista Concept of Time
III. The Rewinds: Our Dead, the Living, Biographies, Diversity, Stories, Our History, and Other Subjects
14. Marx, Hegel and Dunayevskaya-Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization in the Context of Latin American Liberation
I. Marx and the Present Moment in Latin America
II. Hegel's Revolution in Philosophy-From Master Slave to Absolute Negativity
III. Dunayevskaya's Reading of the Dialectic in Marx-Its Significance for Today
IV. Conclusion: Toward a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy
Bibliography
Index

Utopia and the dialectic in Latin American liberation /

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