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“Men of Stone and Children of Struggle”: Latin American Liberationists at the End of History
Author(s) -
Bell Daniel M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00058
Subject(s) - praise , latin americans , politics , capitalism , resistance (ecology) , state (computer science) , political science , political economy , sociology , environmental ethics , law , philosophy , social psychology , psychology , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology
This article critiques the political theory of Latin American liberationists and suggests a theological source of resistance to the regnant capitalist order. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, the liberationists’' commitment to “politcs as statecraft,” manifest originally in the hopes of seizing the state and more recently in the praise of an emergent civil society, is shown to be unable to resist “paranational hyper capitalism.” Instead, liberationists should reconsider the church as a “public”, as a social, political, economic formation in its own right. Toward this end they might learn from the Christian base communities.