The Counter Insurgency State

In this piece, marini is attempting to theorize what change in the seventies among the latin american bourgeoisie for this new type of regime to arise. He recognizes that the regimes are facis like, but they cannot be fully identified with european fachism. Marini ends the peace by thinking about the possibilities of the mass democratic opposition these regimes could face. They could either lead to the building of a peasant worker alliance, which will take its fight beyond democratic objectives to the fight for socialism. Or they could also be coupted into recovering a symbolic bourgeois democracy that did not conduct significant economic reforms.