FROM POPULISM TO PROGRESSISM: reflections on its transforming capacity

The aim of the article is to analyze and contrast the populism of the 1930s with the progressivism of the 2000s, in Latin America, with an emphasis on rural areas. It is about investigating what were the conditions that allowed the transformative potential of populism and what were those that generated the recent phenomenon, which castrated its transforming capacity. The main argument points to the historical conditions in which both phenomena arose. While populism emerged when the conditions already existed to replace the landowning oligarchy with the industrial bourgeoisie and promote the accumulation regime by import substitution, progressivism emerged prematurely, when the decline of the neoliberal regime had begun but has not yet weakened. the power of financial and corporate capital, nor is the replacement of this class by another dominant sector in sight. This leads to an inability of progressivism to promote structural changes.

Hegemonic Transition; Populism; Progressivism; Hegemony