| Autor: |
Munck, Ronaldo, García-Macías, Pascual, Ponce, Karina |
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Latin American Perspectives; Jul2022, Vol. 49 Issue 4, p3-12, 10p |
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As we move well beyond the optimism of the left turn in Latin America that began in 2000 and ended (at least temporarily) around 2015 (with the end of the commodities price boom and the defeat of progressive Peronism in Argentina), we have to find ways to reconnect critical thinking with the need to reconstruct hegemony across the broad masses to create a better future. Mariátegui grounded his Marxism in the complex indigenous reality of Peru and refused to simply extrapolate the European communist tradition to Latin America. This is a forward-looking utopia that to various degrees unites the thinkers gathered in this collection: Mariátegui (most obviously) but also Fals Borda, Zavaleta Mercado, and Cueva, who in different ways looked to a future that would not condemn people to a failed development model and a denial of their aspirations. Mariátegui's Marxism was what we might call a "warm" one, far removed from the scientific pretensions of the analytical and theoretical Marxisms (including a somewhat dogmatic reading of the French political philosopher Louis Althusser) that dominated in Latin America during the 1970s. [Extracted from the article] |
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