Thesis PhD.: MOVIMIENTOS ANTISISTÉMICOS EN EL SISTEMA-MUNDO CONTEMPORÁNEO: EL CASO VENEZOLANO

The present study aims to analyze the events in Venezuela from the arrival of Hugo Chávez Frías to power in 1998 and the position taken by the country within an antisystemic perspective in regional and international scenarios. The approach used in the analysis of antisystemic positions of Venezuela is based on the proposal advocated by Immanuel Wallerstein called World-Systems Analysis and Antisystemics Movements, on the work of Giovanni Arrighi on Systemic Cycles of Accumulation, and the theoretical scope developed by the Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci on Passive Revolution and  Piedmontese Function. To understand the process that occurs in Venezuela will be necessary to evaluate the historical failure of the model political party based on called Puntofijo whose collapse occurred with the victory of Hugo Chávez in late 1990. The administration of the Venezuelan leader has managed major advances in improving the social economic and social indicators of the poorest in the country. On the international scene, Chávez has adopted an anti-imperialist and anti-US Speech to mark his position as an alternative to neoliberal globalization. His performance is developed within the spectrum antisystemic to seek to promote the reduction of U.S. hegemony and seeks to build a multipolar world and Latin America with a less ideological and political influence in Washington. Keywords: Bolivarian Revolution, Antisystemic Practice, Challenge to the U.S., Piedmontese Function, Hegemony.