The indigenous movement as the core of the revolutionary popular subject in the counterhegemonic process in Latin America

• Published in: Estudos de sociologia (Araraquara, Brazil) Vol. 17; no. 33
• Main Author: Friggeri, Felix Pablo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: 01.01.2012
• Subjects: American Indians; Indigenous Populations; Latin America; Latin American Cultural Groups; Neoliberalism; Proletariat
• ISSN: 1414-0144

In this article we intend to present the indigenous movement in Latin America as a new revolutionary subject in the framework of the constitution of the popular subject that sustains this Latin American stage of unprecedented unity and a counter-hegemonic positioning for its original questioning of neoliberalism, which predominates at a global level. In order to do so, we analyze some key elements in the configuration of this subject, its continuity and differences with the proletariat, its potential ally. We focus on the epistemic-political potential of the indigenous movement and its required consideration as the nuclear constituent of the popular subject in Latin America and the key reference, both practical and theoretical, for this process. Adapted from the source document.