Introduction Part 1: Capitalism at Work: Economic and Social Dynamics 1. Monopoly Capital and the Agrarian Question: Contemporary Dynamics 2. Capitalism on the Extractive Frontier 3. Dynamics of Narco-Capitalism Part 2: The Politics of Development and Resistance 4. Cycles of Development and Resistance 5. Development from Below: Constructing a Social and Solidarity Economy 6. In the Crosshairs of US Imperialism 7. The End of the Progressive Cycle 8. A Right-Wing Interlude or the Death-Rattle of Neoliberalism? 9. The Politics of Neoliberal Authoritarianism Conclusion References

This book explores the dynamics of the 'progressive cycle' in Latin American politics, and examines the transition from a progressive cycle of regimes towards what appears to be another swing in the pendulum of electoral politics towards the far right and a return to neoliberal orthodoxy.

Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Canada. He is the author and editor of over forty books in areas of globalization and the political economy of development, including The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (2018); Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today (2017, with James Petras); Agrarian Change, Migration and Development (2016, co-authored); and Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization (2016).

James Petras is Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, USA. He is the author of more than sixty-two books published in twenty-nine languages, and over six hundred articles in professional journals that include the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies . He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Section, and the 2002 Robert Kenny Award for Best Book. His books include The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East (2014); Extractivist Imperialism in the Americas (co-authored, 2014); Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America (2015/2017, co-authored); and The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire (2016).