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The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same
The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left
Jeffery R. Webber(0)
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Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will governments continue to rely on natural resource extraction? In an accessible and penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber examines the most important questions facing the Latin American left today.
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"One of the best Anglophone Marxists writing about Latin America, Webber hits on all of the main questions facing the Latin American left today."
Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History
"If you have ever wondered what happened to the beacon of hope that was, until recently, Latin America, this is the book to turn to. With supreme grasp of the continent's politics, Jeffrey R. Webber unpacks the contradictions of the Left governments that once inspired dreams of a twenty-first century socialism. Most importantly, he shows how they banked on extracting natural resources for the glob
Andreas Malm, author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Wa
"At a time when most scholars of contentious politics have abandoned political economy, Jeffery Webber's latest book is a breath of fresh air. He shows how the rise of the new Latin American Left was linked to a regional crisis of neoliberal capitalism at the turn of the millennium. And he shows how the delayed effects of the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 pushed Left and Center-Left governme
Jeff Goodwin, New York University