El FMI como instrumento clave en la lucha de clases: reflexiones a partir de América Latina

David Barkin and Juan Santarcángelo ()

El Trimestre Económico, 2024, vol. 91 (2), issue 362, 239-263

Abstract: The aim of this paper is: first, to show that the relationship between Latin America and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a faithful reflection of a class struggle on a world scale, where the correlation of internal and external forces has been articulated over the years in favor of capital; second, to analyze the concrete possibilities that the region will face in the future if it intends to reverse this unfavorable history. The paper argues that the IMF has played a key role in the reconfiguration and extension of the dominance of international finance capital over the productive resources of Latin America by favoring the consolidation of a local capitalist class subordinated to the designs and power of transnational capital.

Keywords: IMF; class struggle; Latin America; political economy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N46 O54 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.20430/ete.v91i362.2090

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