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MARTINEZ ANDRADE, Luis. La posmodernidad como una metamorfosis de la ideología colonial. Argumentos (Méx.) [online]. 2009, vol.22, n.61, pp.51-63. ISSN 0187-5795.

The capitalist production system is a hegemonic project relying on two bases: on the one hand, it is based on the mental domination (ideology, symbolic discourse, psychology, etcetera) of human beings and, on the other hand, on the material exploitation (techniques, biogenetics, work flexibility, taylorism, fordism, among others) by the elite of the masses. Poverty, marginalization and exclusion have not disappeared, on the contrary, they have intensifed. According to the United Nations Development Programme (2008) 20% of the world's population lives off the work of the remaining 80%; it is the expression of an education that serves the political, military and social elites. From a very provincial eurocentrist point of view, Jean-François Lyotard emphasizes that discourses (knowledge, communication, the bind between power and knowledge) are virtual games. Yet, African hunger and South American poverty are real. Reason used as a tool of domination is an actual, real and tangible phenomenon.

Palavras-chave : postmodernity; neo-colonialism; liberation; people; emancipation.