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- Title: Postnationalism, Globalization and the "Post-Mexican Condition" in Roger Bartra.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
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Introduction In Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson stresses the importance of journeys, or colonial pilgrimages, in the transformation from the colonial state to the nation state (1991, 114-115). A similar process continues to this day with the transformation of what David Harvey calls the "neoliberal state" (2005). In the case of Mexico, one has to ask to what degree of relevance is the fact that 4 of the last 5 Mexican presidents did postgraduate studies in American universities known for their neoliberal credentials: Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The exception, Vicente Fox, was CEO of Coca-Cola in Mexico. This clearly suggests the possibility of class, institutional and ideological allegiances. I bring this up because it is one of the blind spots in Roger Bartra's depiction of what he calls "the post-Mexican condition." I also bring it up to contextualize and distinguish the experiences of this neoliberal political elite and that of the cultural intellectual I discuss in this paper.