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This essay critiques contemporary imperial theorizing for its economic reductionism and lack of institutional specificity of the imperial state, and posits the centrality of class analysis. The study proceeds to emphasize how specific class alignments in emerging countries interacting with imperial configurations can overcome underdevelopment and proceed to world power. In the final section the study points to the changes and continuities in US imperial relations with Latin America and the potentialities and constraints on further growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues the need to turn back from a postmodernist pivot in social analysis to Marxism in theory and class analysis. We argue this point in regard to two contemporary issues of critical sociology: the dynamics of a growing worldwide ecological crisis and the current dynamics of the indigenous movement in Latin America. Both areas of sociological analysis have been seriously affected by the retreat from Marxism and in need of class analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a perspective on the national question of nationalism in Latin America. According to the author, foreign social, economic, and political order specifies the history and rights of the oppressed and produces a national question. He added that the condition is of major importance due to the relationship between national oppression and capitalist exploitation. In addition, the author reflects on different stages of thought that led to assertions that there is no Marxist theory on the subject of national question.