Sumak Kawsay: A Worldview from the South with a Sense of Bio-Social Justice

The present article aims to expose the importance of solidary economy for analyzing the current crisis (manifested by factors such as climate change, depletion and erosion of natural resources and the persistence of socio-economic gaps) and contributing to the strengthening of a proposal that combines economic development and bio-social justice, as a recent trend of critical thought. The article starts with the analysis of the epistemological origins of economic development within the postulates of Marx and Engels. Subsequently, the relationship between capital and nature through some post-developmental proposals, including those developed from the pro-indigenous social movements, is explored. Finally, the article proposes the Sumak Kawsay as a development model for the common man.