Abstract
The error of the theses about Latin America that Rodolfo Stavenhagen criticized was mainly that they attempted to impose the capitalist class’s view of the world on the rest of society and that they were hegemonic. Stavenhagen’s arguments were not only counterhegemonic but directed at social praxis and social change. As he pointed out, Latin America’s internal colonialism is the result of capitalism’s subjugating and alienating mode of production, and therefore the solution to it cannot come from more capitalism. Any project for change must begin with breaking down our countries’ enormous social differences. Progress or development in Latin America will come not from economic growth but from the introduction of modes of production associated with the solidary economy.
Las tesis sobre desarrollo en América Latina que Stavenhagen pretendió tergiversar resultaron equivocadas ante todo porque trataron de mostrar al resto de la sociedad una idea de la realidad propia del capital y porque eran hegemónicas. Los argumentos de Stavenhagen eran no solo contra-hegemónicos sino además dirigidos a la praxis social, al cambio de los social. Como el señaló, el colonialismo interno de América Latina era un resultado del despliegue del modo de producción capitalista sojuzgador y enajenante, y consecuente con ello, la solución no puede ser por mas capitalismo. No es posible proponerse ningún proyecto de cambio para el desarrollo si no se inicia por romper las abismales diferencias que existen en las sociedades de nuestros países. El progreso o el desarrollo en América Latina no está en el camino del crecimiento económico, sino en el de ir introduciendo modos de producir propios de la conocida economía solidaria.
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