Social Movements in the South

Question 1

The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas Mexico

Answer 1

-Sign that social forces were crystallising in opposition to neoliberal hegemony
-locus of that movement was the global south

Question 2

Alternative forms of development

Answer 2

Resistance to domination
Decolonisation
Clashes between dominant and subaltern groups over ‘development’

Question 3

What Marx would call ‘fault lines’ and ‘contradictions’ in the attempts to neoliberal hegemoney

Answer 3

these oppositional political movements intended to move the population in the global south beyond developmentalism and neoliberalism

Question 4

Developmentalism

Answer 4

An idea that came out of the Great Depression
-With the decline of liberal capitalism

Question 5

What caused the decline of liberal capitalism?

Answer 5

-The intensification of labour militancy
-The rise of political parties that represented the interests of working classes
-the class compromise between labour and capital

Question 6

Developmentalism in Russia:

Answer 6

1917
-Workers and peasants engaged in the communist revolution
-Ended a decaying feudal empire