The seeds of resistance require a precarious balance of factors in order to mature into social change. Democratic environments seek to reinforce the status quo and are specifically designed to minimize the effects of social resistance, even to the point of preventing them. Given factors of cultural cohesion and aversion to democratic stagnancy in Latin America, its literary market has risen to the occasion allowing poetry to be an active force in mass mobilization. This contrasts with the United States where mass mobilization seldom occurs and the literary market disregards its responsibility to be effective in favor of autonomous satisfaction; a perspective that parallels the democratic capitalist culture out of which it emerges. This tendency renders the literary market unable to develop unified ideologies and therefore unable to unseat large scale hegemonies.

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