Three critical perspectives for thinking alternatives in the context of neoliberal capitalism

Abstract

In the current context of the deepening of the logic of Capitalism, this work makes a review of three perspectives of critical thinking in order to reflect on alternatives to the processes of growing inequality and exclusion. In the first place, the diagnosis of the situation in the context of World War II made by thinkers of the Frankfurt School is recovered. Following are Franz Hinkelammert’s contributions on his conception of the subject and his critique of the law of the market; to finally recover the studies of the common as political action against the current accumulation processes through the configuration of commons for their expropriation. It concludes by integrating contributions from the three perspectives as a valuable historical experience for the construction of alternatives to a system that, despite its impetuosity, shows signs of weakening.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 156, 2020: 113-138