Edward Palmer Thompson en América Latina: sobre la economía moral de las multitudes latinoamericanas

Abstract

In this essay the concept of the moral economy of the multitudes of Edward Palmer Thompson is revisited to highlight its validity and possible application to the Latin American reality. Thus, the author observes in Latin America, during the last thirty years, a whole series of powerful and recurrent processes of vast social mobilization, reflecting a clear update and manifestation of the underlying moral economy of the plebeian multitudes. From the crossing between the awakening of the Latin American multitudes and the concept of moral economy, the author dares to predict the deepening of the crisis of global capitalism.