Abstract
Progress marks a way of understanding Latin America in terms of what it lacks, what it should be yearning for and seeking. Historically, the idea of progress served to legitimate the region’s submission to a world order marked by colonial capitalist and imperialist rule. Comparison of the modern ideal of progress with developmentalism, particularly as defined by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and criticism of “progress” as legitimation arising out of the intersection of postdevelopmentalist thought with the ideology of Good Living shows that the idea continues to haunt the postcolonial pursuit of a free Latin America.
O progresso baliza uma forma de abordagem da América Latina pela falta, pelo o que ela deve ansiar e buscar. Historicamente, a ideia de progresso passou a legitimar a submissão da região a uma ordem mundial marcada pelo domínio capitalista colonial e imperialista. Frente ao ideário moderno de progresso, as formas tomadas pelo desenvolvimentismo, marcadamente no âmbito das orientaçãoes da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe, e as críticas ao progresso como legitimação surgidas no bojo do entrecruzamento do pensamento pós-desenvolvimentista com o ideário do Bem Viver mostram que a ideia de progresso se mantém como um fantasma perante abordagens pós-coloniais das possibilidades de livre desabrochamento latino-americano.
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