Social and political: urgent challenges of popular struggles in Latin America

Abstract

Social and political crisis that in certain countries and moments are domination crisis have labeled a foreseeable trend with respect to accelerate the social times and the contradictions generated by the capitalism in Latin America. Perhaps one of the peculiar signs of this new conjuncture is that when we talk about a social and political crisis, it is better understood by the right than by the left forces. The social and political crisis are moments in those which are altered or broken the balances of the domination. The "resolution" of the crisis supposes advances or setbacks for the mastered. The current challenges consist on this. The impact of the Argentine crisis, the disaster of the country has introduced with dramatis topics of discussion not always envisaged in Latin America, although refer to a common problematic reality. The Argentine crisis is converted into an emerging analytical not by its current exceptionality into the Latin American context, but by the contrast with the peculiarity of its antecedents.