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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825277103321

Autore

Aricó José

Titolo

Marx and Latin America / / by José Aricó ; translated by David Broder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-25635-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 pages)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 57

Altri autori (Persone)

BroderDavid

Disciplina

335.4/098

Soggetti

Communism - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / José Aricó -- 1. An Evaded Reality / José Aricó -- 2. The Growth of the Movement and the Crisis of Theory / José Aricó -- 3. The Reality and Fallacy of Marx’s ‘Eurocentrism’ / José Aricó -- 4. De Te Fabula Narratur? / José Aricó -- 5. The Theoretical and Political Presuppositions of National ‘Autonomy’ / José Aricó -- 6. Hegel Redivivus / José Aricó -- 7. The Political Reasons for a Disconnection / José Aricó -- 8. Marx’s Bolivar / José Aricó -- Appendix 1. Rosa Luxemburg and the ‘Crisis’ of Marxism / José Aricó -- Appendix 2. Hegel and Latin America / José Aricó -- Appendix 3. Marx and the Prospects of Russian Society / José Aricó -- Appendix 4. Marx’s Shift of Attention Towards Agrarian Communities / José Aricó -- Appendix 5. On the Social-Democratic Leaders’ August 1914 ‘Betrayal’ / José Aricó -- Appendix 6. Marx and the Spanish Revolution / José Aricó -- Appendix 7. Aníbal Ponce’s ‘Marginal Notes’ / José Aricó -- Appendix 8. On the Effect of British Hegemony in Latin America / José Aricó -- Appendix 9. Karl Marx / José Aricó -- Epilogue to the Second Edition / José Aricó -- References / José Aricó -- Index / José Aricó.

Sommario/riassunto

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.