In his 2021 publication, The Left Hand of Capital, for The State University of New York Press, Professor Fernando I. Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of Chile’s last 30 years of socioeconomic policies, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillfully probes how innovative center-left politico-economic initiatives transformed the state’s relationships with the country’s urban poor, Indigenous peoples, workers, students, and business elites, thereby contributing to institutionalizing, legitimizing, and renewing Chile’s neoliberal system of domination. Leiva documents how such politics, progressive in appearance, were pivotal in forging new arts of domestication, “participatory” social control mechanisms, and commodified subjectivities.