The Revival of Indigenous Movements - 1862 Words

Marisol de la Cadena argued that Latin Americas turn to the Left away from neoliberalism in the past few years has been in part due to the revival of indigenous movements (indigenismo) in the Andean countries of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Modern politics on the Left can accommodate these movements when they are concerned with capitalist exploitation, protection of the environment, cultural autonomy and land reform, although it shares the same modernist and rationalist assumptions as the liberals and supporters of free trade and laissez faire capitalism. If modernity as defined by John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim means science, technology, industry and urbanization, with human beings removed from the state of nature, then there is hardly any room at the table for belief in earth spirits, sacred mountains an invisible sky and water gods. 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