Marx and Latin America

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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 r…

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Full title :Marx and Latin America. / José M. Aricó; Transl. from Spanish by David Broder.

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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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Koninklijke Brill NV
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:512 pages.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004217294, 9004217290
oclc:ocn853452530
LC Classification:E
Dewey Decimal:970.980

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.