Resumen

CONTRERAS, Miguel Ángel. Insurgent Imaginaries in Latin America: Is Socialism an Emancipatory Horizon en the Twenty First Century?. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2007, vol.13, n.2, pp.205-228. ISSN 20030507.

During recent decades, the ambit and contents of social, political and popular struggles in Latin America have been shifting their ground. On the basis of collective action and popular protest, there has been a clear undermining of the apparently well-consolidated, neoliberal imaginary and a questioning of persisting colonial influences. This article examines the central characteristics of the neoliberal imaginary and indicates the symptoms of its decline. The article then discusses twenty first century socialism as articulating the imaginary and action of the greater part of the regional social and popular movements. It concludes insisting on the need for a critical and reflexive spirit, open to debate and fed by a plurality of sources capable of building that other possible world imbued with democratic, radical and socialist values

Palabras clave : Socialism; Neoliberalism; Democracy; Social Movements; Pluralism.