Articles by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer

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NEOLIBERALISM AND THE DYNAMICS OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA (Part 1)
Profs. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer – Dissident Voice, 20 Nov 2009

An analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development over the last two decades has been overshadowed by an all too prevalent “globalization” discourse. It appears that much of the Left has bought into this discourse, tacitly accepting globalization as an irresistible fact and that in many ways it is progressive, needing only for the corporate […]

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NEOLIBERALISM AND THE DYNAMICS OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA (Part 2)
Profs. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer – Dissident Voice, 20 Nov 2009

Whither Socialism in a Sea of Crisis and Neoliberal Decline? A serious discussion of the prospects for socialism in Latin America today must take into account world economic conditions in the current conjuncture, the state of US-Latin American relations relative to the project of world domination and imperialism, the specific impact on Latin American countries […]

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IMPERIAL GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Profs. James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, 20 Oct 2009

The unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free-market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled “globalization”. The process of globalization was the result of ‘external’ and ‘internal’ […]

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