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Opinión invitada In memoriam a Ulises Granados, promotor de los estudios sobre Asia en general y China en particular. Investigador riguroso y docente comprometido, fue mi discípulo desde que estudiaba la licenciatura en la UNAM y en la maestría en El Colegio de México. Deja un legado importante, ejemplo para las generaciones que se especializan en estos estudios

Este artículo muestra las principales posiciones sociales de la estructura social en la comunidad universitaria de la carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación, perteneciente a la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (FCPyS) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Su propósito es hacer observables las divisiones sociales que resaltan los estudiantes dentro de su particular contexto social. Esto se realiza a través del análisis de los datos estadísticos de la UNAM y del análisis de algunos relatos grupales e individuales. El artículo concluye que existen tres posiciones sociales: 1) la posición aspiracional, 2) la posición defensiva y 3) la posición reactiva. ; This article points out the main social positions of the social structure of the Communication Sciences' community college, part of the Faculty of Social and Politica Sciences (FCPyS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Our purpose is to make observable social divisions that highlight students within their particular social context. This is accomplished by analyzing the statistics of the UNAM and some groups and individual narratives. The article concludes that there are three social positions: 1) the aspirational position, 2) the defensive position and 3) the reactive position.

This article provides an impressionistic history of recent capitalism by describing its intrinsic tendencies to produce poverty and crises. It argues that the automation revolution and globalization are generalizing and globalizing poverty, especially since neoliberalism replaced Keynesianism. This picture is contradicted by the poverty statistics of the World Bank, but when these are examined carefully it is shown that the decrease in global poverty that they show is false. An examination of Marxist and mainstream theories of capitalist crises shows both that financiarization has become the main mechanism to keep afloat financial monopoly capitalism, and that conventional economic theory is impotent to deal with the current crises. Total automation is bringing to an end the wage-based society, which is incompatible with generalized automation. This in turn opens up the possibility of human emancipation from «forced», alienated work. Finally, Universal Citizen Income is regarded as an alternative that solves the aforementioned contradiction by saving and radically transforming capitalism.

This paper presents a case study of the origins of Progresa–Oportunidades, the conditional cash transfer program for which Mexico has gained an international reputation. The main argument is that, though Mexico is held up as a leader in this area, this is little more than a façade. Rather, Mexico is used by the World Bank to propel its favoured policies and NAFTA has limited its ability to engage in autonomous policymaking. Furthermore, it is shown that the alleged role of Mexico as an emerging power is misleading and that we can best characterize it as a sinking middle power.