CROSSROADS OF A POLITICAL LABYRINTH Anti-Neoliberalism, Intellectual Paradigms and Economic Development in South America José Francisco Puello-Socarrás.

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1 CROSSROADS OF A POLITICAL LABYRINTH Anti-Neoliberalism, Intellectual Paradigms and Economic Development in South America José Francisco Puello-Socarrás josephco@yahoo.com Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM - ARG) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET - ARG) Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales y Políticas (FISYP - ARG) josephco@yahoo.com

2 Crisis of Neoliberal hegemony (paradigm of development) related with Antineoliberalism wave in the first decade of XXI century (regional and global). New discourses on «Development» in AL (Neo- developmental, Socialism, etc.) coming to updated. There is no Tachter’s TINA or WC’s Consensus. The “Battle of ideas” is !alive and kickin’! Neither «Post» neoliberalism ¿What kind of dialogue is possible between politics and intellectual fields? (Power-Knowledge dynamics).

3 70s1989 20011994 1998 2004 Neoliberalism and Anti-neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean 20101977

4 ¿What is the so-called anti-neoliberalism (AN)? Which are the «new development» paradigms arisen? Are they (or not) differents from the previous neoliberal era? What’s old-and-new in AN? ¿How?: Who, whom, and mechanism and processes

5 “Ideas matters”: Where, Who, How… ideas diseminating and materializing in social contexts through political and economic process (viewed as a social forces) Intellectuals as mediators (e.g. second-hand dealers) translate grand abstract ideas into specifics ones in particular contexts (crucial input to ‘action’)

6 Figure 1. Normative-cognitive levels in the «Battle of Ideas Dynamics» Source: Puello-Socarrás (2008, 2009, 2010 based on Plehwe and Surel).

7 Study Case Selection in Comparative approach (mechanism-based analysis) CategoríaArgentinaBoliviaVenezuela Adopción del paradigma neoliberal hasta llegada de gobiernos antineoliberales Temprana (1976-2003) Media (1985-2003) Tardía (1989-1998) Grado de ‘tecnocratización’ neoliberalAlta Media Profundidad de las reformas neoliberalesProfundaModeradaLimitada Escenarios de protesta social vs neoliberalismoSí Clima de crisis económica y social que motiva y acelera anti-neoliberalismo Sí Sí Sí Retórica anti-neoliberal de nuevos gobiernos electos (cognitiva y normativa) Progresivamente moderada (“Capitalismo en Serio” / «Neo»-desarrollismo) Énfasis regulativo Progresivamente agresiva (“Socialismo Comunitario”) Énfasis intervencionista Progresivamente agresiva (“Socialismo Siglo XXI”) Énfasis intervencionista / planificador Espacios de constitución de Redes de “reformulación” del paradigma y estrategia de desarrollo neoliberal “Consenso de Buenos Aires” (1997/2003-2010) Asambleas Constitucionales (2006) Asambleas Constitucionales (1999/2007) Redes Intelectuales emergentes de influencia visible en cambios de Paradigma Desarrollo Económico FENIX, ATLAS, MEDITERRANEA, CEMDET, IPSU, Fundación para la Libertad, F. Economía Social de Mercado COMUNANo Núcleos dispersos en procesos de convergencia A determinar

8 Conclusions 1.Antineoliberalism Bifurcation: Neoliberalism’s Difraction and Counter-neoliberalism’s in action. 2. Intellectual mediators as a crucial agents of «rethinking» development (paradigms and «models»). 3. Modes of intellectual mediation shapes diferent trajectories of the «rethinking development» processes. 4. Posibilities about AlteR/NativE forms of «development» (Paradigms  Models  Strategies  Tactics…).

9 Old-Orthodox Anglo-american perspectives Neoliberalism as a whole Counter- neoliberalism Difraction Bifurcation Neoliberalism New-Hetherodox Austrian & German perspectives Anti-Neoliberalism ‘New’ Neoliberalism

10 Conclusions (Partial) 1.Antineoliberalism Bifurcation: Neoliberalism’s Difraction and Counter-neoliberalism’s in action. 2. Intellectual mediators as a crucial agents of «rethinking/thinking another» development (paradigms and «models»). 3. Modes of intellectual mediation shapes diferents trajectories of this process. 4. Posibilities about AlteR/NativE forms of «development» (Paradigms  Models  Strategies  Tactics…).

11 Middle-range interaction /dynamics of realities construction Policy Programs (instrumentalization) Social-Political Projects (political envisioned uthopies)

12 Utopia is on the horizon; I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps, and it is ten steps further away. The more I walk the further away it is. What is Utopia for. It is for this, for walking La Utopía… ella está en el horizonte. Me acerco dos pasos, ella se aleja dos pasos. Camino diez pasos y el horizonte se va diez pasos más allá. Por mucho que yo camine, nunca la alcanzaré. Para qué sirve la Utopía? Para eso sirve: para caminar Eduardo Galeano