Economic Globalization, Class Struggle, and the Mexican Stateстатья из журнала
Аннотация: The contemporary Mexican system is a degraded and decaying hegemonic regime headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary party-PRI). Its control over Mexico for 72 years has eroded as it confronts a growing class struggle for real democracy characterized by rejection of the PRI at the ballot box, massive street demonstrations for social justice, militancy on the part of new labor organizations independent of the PRI, and armed struggle in Chiapas and Guerrero. Neoliberal policies and economic globalization have increased corruption, exploitation, and economic misery. These conditions have given rise to social movements and to political parties organized under competing banners of democracy that are attempting to engrave their axioms on a social order that has removed whatever cushion that may once have existed for its poor as they fall from the misery to absolute disaster. No longer able to provide patronage to maintain discipline among local PRI bosses, the PRI's hegemony is marked by an increasing feudalization within it and a growing class struggle from without. To maintain this hegemony, it employs military force in Chiapas and Guerrero and alternates in power selectively in a few states, mostly by co-opting the conservative Partido Acci6n Nacional (National Action party-PAN). The growing struggle of social classes for real democracy in Mexico is once again Mexico's central political drama and Mexico's hope. Mexico's crisis is closely associated with the transition it has undergone since the 1980s to a more market-oriented form of state capitalism. The Mexican state substituted for a poorly developed capitalist class, providing capital investment and protecting national industry through high tariffs and through import substitution. It organized and coordinated the most important social and economic sectors through a populist, nationalist, corporatist party structure that maintained a revolutionary facade while allowing foreign capital and its allies to control Mexico through its popular sector. Leftist movements that opposed misery and repression were destroyed to maintain an autocratic form of state capitalism based on wage exploitation and social
Год издания: 2001
Авторы: José M. Vadi
Издательство: SAGE Publishing
Источник: Latin American Perspectives
Ключевые слова: Asian Industrial and Economic Development, Economic Theory and Policy, Politics and Society in Latin America
Открытый доступ: closed
Том: 28
Выпуск: 4
Страницы: 129–147