Abstract

CARRASCO, Daniel Espinoza. Elements for a Marxist Characterization of Neoliberalism. Desafíos [online]. 2019, vol.31, n.1, pp.157-192. ISSN 0124-4035.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.6135.

Various characterisations of neoliberalism have described it as an economic ideology that materialises in a government program, whose objective is the free market. The problem of these notions lies in its ambiguity and in thinking about neoliberalism starting from what it claims for itself. The central thesis of this article is that neoli beralism is an eminently political phenomenon, which refers specifically to the state. Using concepts from Poulantzas' Marxist theory, it is possible to account for the function and relationships that the state maintains with a social formation. This allows us to interpret the social changes that have taken place since the irruption of neoliberal governments and their reforms, establishing a basis on which the par ticularities of the neoliberal state and its differences with other forms of state are described. At this point the notion of accumulation by dispossession provides key elements to understand how neoliberalism operates.

Keywords : Neoliberalism; state; marxism.

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