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Democracy in dispute. An interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos

In Latin America, oligarchies and advanced sectors of the highly internationalized industrial and financial bourgeoisie, lost much governmental political power, but instead saw their economic power increased. Español

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Protester waving a Guatemalan flag sits on a column at the Metropolitan Cathedral during a national strike in Guatemala City, 2015. Luis Soto AP/Press Association Images.

An economic crisis

Fabiola & Roque: From your words it is clear that global capitalism is facing a permanent  growth crisis, and that the model based on continuous increase of consumption has become obsolete. Do you think that economic decline and depletion of resources will trigger a shift to a less savage, less utilitarian economy? Is there a way out of the capitalist hook?