Neoliberalism and Class Domination: A Marxist Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism. Interview with Gérard Duménil

Abstract

The present text is an interview with economist Gérard Duménil during his visit to Brazil in the months of October and November 2006. The interview is centered on his views on questions regarding contemporary capitalism, such as neoliberalism, social classes, and the position of Latin America in this economic order. Of particular importance is the fact that Duménil, in collaboration with Dominique Lévy, has been working on a specific periodization of capitalism that argues that neoliberalism is a new hegemony of finance, similar to the one that existed at the end of the Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century.