Revolution and political culture in Latin America

Abstract

In his reflection, the author raises the possibility of a continental political left that exceeds the “politicist” axis, which comes from the origins of the industrial society. The emergency of new realities and subjects reflects the necessity of a radical left, but neither a militarist nor an elitist one, but revolutionary in a Latin American way and as much integrating of the different social movements that fight against “one-way” globalisation. The change cannot, from this perspective, continue being controlled «from above», as it has been usual between the revolutionary elites of the continent, neither oriented from and towards an only specific social group. The radicalism and the cultural self-production arise like the key elements in his reflection. Women, paysants, workers, natives, unemployed, marginal sectors and minorities appear like the central actors of a radical project of democratic and nonexcluding change, outside the univocal logic of the social class or the political party. The author defends the integration of the different liberating fights without the loss of their specificity, but preserving a common space of critic to the sociopolitycal system.