Structural reconfiguration of social class relations: the case of the Honduran social formation

Abstract

The purpose of this analysis is to explain the transformations of the relations between forms of social classes in the period of neoconservative establishment of the authoritarian bureaucratic state in Honduras 1990-2021.The space of class antagonism is the impact of the neoliberal extractives model of exploitation, imposition of surplus labor, territorial occupation and dispossession of communities or units of domestic economy, production and appropriation of surplus production, in conditions of privileged spaces of accumulation and power.This analysis verifies that the antagonism between dominant and subordinate classes has reconfigured social relations, with the financial bourgeoisie emerging as the leader, linked to the extractives industry and owner of the media. The militarized neoconservative authoritarian state has established itself as a democratic representation, guarantor of reproduction, expansion and concentration of capital. Neoconservative rule combines fundamentalist ideology with military repression and individual control, with the ability to reduce the functional state to its exclusive interests.