The current challenges of the left in Central America: an essay based on the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Abstract

A historically renewed theory makes possible the correct praxis. A new paradigm is rising: a sensitive knowledge for a decent life. Emancipating knowledge rather than regulatory. Delineate new spaces of power. Provoke the unconformity of the living and the victim as a force for social transformation. A renewed praxis: contact with the poor; austere life; antipatriarchal project; justice, freedom and responsibility; generational relay; combat against divisiveness; secular state and religious people; market and state; Latin American integration; a criticism of violence; overcoming poverty without capitalist spirit.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No.139, 2013: 13-50