Articulating opposition in Latin America: The consolidation of neoliberalism and the search for radical alternatives

This paper explores the complex series of problems facing the Latin American 'left' in the articulation of a coherent alternative to the increasingly dominant neoliberal ideology in the region. it grounds the evolving debates around this theme within the context of a series of important contemporary global and regional processes. The most important of these include the apparent phenomenon of 'globalization' and the increasingly limited room for manoeuvre open to national policy-makers, the rise and consolidation of transnational neoliberalism, the social and economic legacy of the debt crisis in the region, the recent trend toward (re)democratization, the collapse of slate socialism, the apparent global crisis of Marxist thought and the rise in influence of postmodernism upon the politics of the left.