Marx and Latin America

by Aricó, José

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Title Statements

Full title :Marx and Latin America / by José Aricó ; translated by David Broder.

Summary

In a work centred on Marx's harsh biography of Simón Bolívar, José Aricó examines why Latin America was apparently 'excluded' from Marx's thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed some 'Eurocentric' prejudice. Aricó shows how the German thinker's hostility towards the Bonapartism and authoritarianism he identified in the Liberator coloured his attitude towards the continent and the significance of its independence-processes. Whilst criticising Marx's misreading of Latin-American realities, Aricó demonstrates contemporaneous, countervailing tendencies in Marx's thought, including his appraisal of the revolutionary potentialities of other 'peripheral' extra-European societies. As such, Aricó convincingly argues that Marx's work was not a dogma of linear 'progress', but a living, contradictory body of thought constantly in development. English translation of the Marx y América Latina edition, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:FCE first edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9004256350, 9789004256354
oclc:ocn883727173
LC Classification:HX110.5.A6
Dewey Decimal:335.4/098

An evaded reality -- The growth of the movement and the crisis of theory -- The reality and fallacy of Marx's 'eurocentrism' -- De te fabula narratur? -- The theoretical and political presuppositions of national 'autonomy' -- Hegel redivivus -- The political reasons for a disconnect -- Marx's Bolivar.