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In a work centered 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. While criticizing 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
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. While criticizing 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
Price: $30.00
Pages: 152
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date:
10 March 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608464111
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Latin America / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social classes, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Political ideologies and movements
José Aricó: (1931-91) was among Argentina's leading twentieth-century socialist thinkers. Co-founder of the journal Pasado y Presente, his works include Mariátegui y los orígenes del marxismo latinoamericano and La cola del diablo: Itinerario de Gramsci en América Latina
David Broder is a member of the Historical Materialism editorial board. He is currently a History PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, researching the role of dissident communists in the Italian resistance 1943 45.
David Broder is a member of the Historical Materialism editorial board. He is currently a History PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, researching the role of dissident communists in the Italian resistance 1943 45.
The Latin-American Marxism of Aricó: the Search for the Autonomy of Politics in Marx’s Fallacy, Horacio Crespo
Introduction, Carlos Franco
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
1. An Evaded Reality
2. The Growth of the Movement and the Crisis of Theory
3. The Reality and Fallacy of Marx’s ‘Eurocentrism’
4. De Te Fabula Narratur?
5. The Theoretical and Political Presuppositions of National ‘Autonomy’
6. Hegel Redivivus
7. The Political Reasons for a Disconnect
8. Marx’s Bolívar
Appendix 1. Rosa Luxemburg and the ‘Crisis’ of Marxism
Appendix 2. Hegel and Latin America
Appendix 3. Marx and the Prospects of Russian Society
Appendix 4. Marx’s Shift of Attention Towards Agrarian Communities
Appendix 5. On the Social-Democratic Leaders’ August 1914 ‘Betrayal’
Appendix 6. Marx and the Spanish Revolution
Appendix 7. Aníbal Ponce’s ‘Marginal Notes’
Appendix 8. On the Effect of British Hegemony in Latin America
Appendix 9. ‘Bolivar y Ponte’, by Karl Marx
Epilogue to the Second Edition
Bibliography
Index
Introduction, Carlos Franco
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
1. An Evaded Reality
2. The Growth of the Movement and the Crisis of Theory
3. The Reality and Fallacy of Marx’s ‘Eurocentrism’
4. De Te Fabula Narratur?
5. The Theoretical and Political Presuppositions of National ‘Autonomy’
6. Hegel Redivivus
7. The Political Reasons for a Disconnect
8. Marx’s Bolívar
Appendix 1. Rosa Luxemburg and the ‘Crisis’ of Marxism
Appendix 2. Hegel and Latin America
Appendix 3. Marx and the Prospects of Russian Society
Appendix 4. Marx’s Shift of Attention Towards Agrarian Communities
Appendix 5. On the Social-Democratic Leaders’ August 1914 ‘Betrayal’
Appendix 6. Marx and the Spanish Revolution
Appendix 7. Aníbal Ponce’s ‘Marginal Notes’
Appendix 8. On the Effect of British Hegemony in Latin America
Appendix 9. ‘Bolivar y Ponte’, by Karl Marx
Epilogue to the Second Edition
Bibliography
Index