The global neoliberal system

Abstract

In the last 30 years we attended a dramatic process of change that has deeply modified the parameters with which the relation between the State and Civil society was guided. This process, related with the world-wide hegemony of neoliberalism, has generated deep transformations in the diverse fields. This article sets out to investigate in those transformations. For that, it examines the basic characteristics that define this paradigm, giving account of the appropriation that has been made by their main theoreticians of the globalization concept. In second term, it analyzes the effects that their policies have caused in politics, economy, culture and society. It is maintained that the success of the “Neoliberal global system” resides in in that it has managed to depoliticize to a great extent society and its own speech. In this sense, the axis is placed in its depoliticization effects, particularly during the Nineties, a critical period  for the system. In the final section, it is asked about the alternatives arisen in the new Latin American democracies to the model of neoliberal globalization.