The AMLO Project An interesting view of the AMLO project as the presidency of Lopez Obrador is winding down, offered by Edwin Ackerman in Sidecar. The overview of the article is as follows: "We can therefore assess AMLO’s administration based on three fundamental criteria: the reinstatement of class cleavage as a primary organizer of the political field; the effort to reconcentrate the power of a state apparatus hollowed out by decades of neoliberal governance; and the break with an economic paradigm based on institutionalized corruption. Let’s consider each of these in turn." These are the things that any progressive government would need to do in the context of Mexico’s rather deep submersion into neoliberalism. With respect to class politics, Ackerman points to the redistributive politics of the AMLO administration in terms of cash transfers to various categories of persons in need (students, seniors, etc) and increased tax enforcement, which extracted...
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