Marxism In Latin America From 1909 To The Present

Author : Michael Löwy
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015026959513

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Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present by Michael Löwy Pdf

This is the first new anthology of writings by Latin American Marxists to appear in over twenty years. Its purpose is to fill this vacuum and to provide a working tool for both students and activists. While including theoretical, sociological, historical, and economic writings, the majority of the documents center on political struggles throughout the continent. The anthology's method is historical, considering the evolution of Marxist thought in the context of social and political struggles during the different historical periods in Latin America, as well as in connection with developments in the international workers' movement. Of particular interest are hard-to-find documents from the early years of the Communist International; a number of important and previously untranslated texts by Jose Carlos Mariategui, widely considered the most important Marxist thinker of the Americas; documents from the 1932 revolt in El Salvador, led by Farabundo Marti; and selections from the most dynamic elements of the Latin American left, including the Central American revolutionary movements, the Brazilian Workers Party, and liberation theologists.

Author : Peter Baker,Irina Feldman,Mike Geddes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527536159

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Latin American Marxisms in Context by Peter Baker,Irina Feldman,Mike Geddes Pdf

In recent decades, the global North has been engulfed by neoliberalism. Neoliberal ideas have dominated the economy and public policies, and have become deeply entrenched as “common sense.” Latin America has not been immune to this trend. However, at the same time, governments and popular mobilizations across the continent have actively resisted and challenged neoliberalism. Countries such as Venezuela and Bolivia have sometimes been grouped under the label of a “pink tide,” denoting their leftist alignment and their resistance to the Washington-led neoliberal consensus. This opposition to neoliberal development patterns in Latin America has gone beyond social-democratic reformism to a revival of Marxist theoretical perspectives and political practices. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, historically and contemporarily. Given the global interest in the revival of radicalism in Latin America, it will appeal to a wide audience, and should be of interest to non-Marxist as well as Marxist scholars with interests in topics from political economy to cultural theory.

Author : Sheldon B. Liss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0520050223

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Marxist Thought in Latin America by Sheldon B. Liss Pdf

Author : Richard L. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429710490

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Marxism, Socialism, And Democracy In Latin America by Richard L. Harris Pdf

At a time when the validity of Marxism is being questioned because of the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, Richard Harris examines the relevance of Marxism and socialism for Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Harris discusses recent revolutionary regimes and attempts at socialist transformation in the region in terms of Marxist theory, comparing them with the historical experiences of the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia, and Vietnam. The author argues that Marxist theory offers a framework for understanding recent revolutionary transformations as well as the contradictions and limitations of existing democratic regimes in the region. Particular attention is given to revolutionary Cuba, the Allende administration in Chile, the Popular Revolutionary Government in Grenada, the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and contemporary leftist parties and movements throughout Latin America. He contends that democratization and the solution of the region's economic and social problems require a democratic socialist project.

Author : José M. Aricó
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004256354

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Marx and Latin America by José M. Aricó Pdf

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.

Author : Luis E. Aguilar
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015013451219

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Marxism in Latin America by Luis E. Aguilar Pdf

Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015034022924

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Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory by Marc Becker Pdf

José Carlos Mariátegui, the Peruvian political theorist of the 1920s, was instrumental in developing an indigenous Latin American revolutionary Marxist theory. He rejected a rigid, orthodox interpretation of Marxism and applied his own creative elements, which he believed could move a society to revolutionary action without the society having to depend upon more traditional economic factors. His interpretation of Peruvian history had a profound effect upon subsequent social movements throughout Latin America. This volume reviews the essential elements of Mariátegui's thought and important influences on his intellectual development. It demonstrates the role he played in defining a Latin american identity, the nature of his intellectual contribution to the development of indigenous revolutionary movements in Latin America, and the inflluence he had on successful revolutionary movements in Cuba and Nicaragua. An understanding of Mariátegui's thought is fundamental to understanding the nature of revolutionary changes in Latin America.

Author : Harry E. Vanden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0861875893

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National Marxism in Latin America by Harry E. Vanden Pdf

Author : Harry E. Vanden
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0931477492

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National Marxism in Latin America by Harry E. Vanden Pdf

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521595827

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Latin America by Leslie Bethell Pdf

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Latin America: Politics and Society since 1930 consists of chapters from Part 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History that provide a thorough account of political movements in Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

Author : Eugene Walker Gogol
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739103318

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The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation by Eugene Walker Gogol Pdf

In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity, Marx's humanism, and autochthonal emancipatory thought. From this foundation, the book explores the relation of liberatory philosophic thought to today's social and class movements. Gogol considers the logic of capitalism on Latin American soil, the ecological crisis in Latin America, and the concept and practice of self-liberation. Still one of the most contested terrains of Latin American thought, the Other has been of central concern for many luminary thinkers including Leopoldo Zea, Octavio Paz, and JosZ Carlos MariOtegui. While these writers may not garner much publicity in the world press, the highly public and ongoing struggles of the Zapatistas and Brazil's Landless Workers Movement demonstrate the continuing need to theorize the volatile nature of Latin American social reality.

Author : Marc Becker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538163740

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Contemporary Latin American Revolutions by Marc Becker Pdf

Revolutions are a commonly studied but only vaguely understood historical phenomenon. Now updated to include the perspectives of grassroots revolutionary movements and biographies of often marginalized voices, this clear and concise text extends our understanding with a critical narrative analysis of key case studies: the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution; the 1944–1954 Guatemalan Spring; the 1952–1964 MNR-led revolution in Bolivia; the Cuban Revolution that triumphed in 1959; the 1970–1973 Chilean path to socialism; the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua in power from 1979–1990; failed guerrilla movements in Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru; and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela after Hugo Chávez’s election in 1998. Historian Marc Becker opens with a theoretical introduction to revolutionary movements, including a definition of what “revolution” means and an examination of factors necessary for a revolution to succeed. He analyzes revolutions through the lens of those who participated and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of those political changes. Each case study provides an interpretive explanation of the historical context in which each movement emerged, its main goals and achievements, its shortcomings, its outcome, and its legacy. The book concludes with an analysis of how elected leftist governments in the twenty-first century continue to struggle with issues that revolutionaries confronted throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300098367

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The Soul of Latin America by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

To understand Latin America's political culture, and to understand why it differs so greatly from that of the United States, one must look beyond the political history of the region, Howard J. Wiarda explains in this comprehensive book. A highly respected expert on Latin American politics, Wiarda explores a sweeping array of Iberian and Latin American social, economic, institutional, cultural, and religious factors from ancient times to the twentieth century. He illuminates the distinctive political attitudes and traditions of Latin America as well as the unique--and not widely understood--features of present-day Latin American models of democracy. While Ibero-American and Western liberal traditions draw from the same classical thinkers, they often emphasize different ideas and reach different conclusions, Wiarda contends. He traces the influences of Rome, Islam, medieval Christianity, the Reconquest, and Iberian feudalism, and the powerful but largely unacknowledged effects of the Counter-Reformation on Iberian and Latin American civilizations. The author concludes with a discussion of recent changes in political culture and an assessment of the strength of democracy's hold in the nations of Latin America.

Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Historie
ISBN : 0521465567

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The Cambridge History of Latin America by Leslie Bethell Pdf

This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

Author : Daryl Glaser,David M. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135979744

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Twentieth-Century Marxism by Daryl Glaser,David M. Walker Pdf

This book outlines and assesses the Marxist tradition as it developed in the twentieth century, and considers its place and standing as we move into the twenty-first century. It is divided into three parts examining Marxism historically, geographically and thematically: Part 1 analyzes early Marxism in Russia and Europe as it developed after the death of Marx. Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Kautsky, Bernstein and the school of thought associated with them are all examined Part 2 deals with thinkers, debates and movements that followed the early Marxism focused on in part one, and includes chapters on Marxism in Europe, the Soviet Union, Africa, Asia and Latin America Part 3 is concerned with more contemporary debates in relation to Marxism and its standing and role today. The chapters in this section consider various themes including the relationship between theory and practice in Marxism, democratic procedure and liberties, Marxism as an economic critique of capitalism and Marxist methodology. Twentieth Century Marxism is not an introspective discussion of Marxism that would be of interest only to a limited number of specialists. Rather, it provides a thoughtful and stimulating contribution to debates about the role of Marxism today and its future direction.