Latin American Marxism: the critical force of theoretical translation

Abstract

This essay engages the processes of translation and theoretical innovation, which have nurtured the Marxist currents in Latin America, in the form of dialogue with other traditions of Leftist critical thought, from Mariategui to Garcia Linera. Translation in question is often a selective one, to adequate the Marxist tools to the demands of the Latin American social realities. These translation processes go hand-in-hand with key continuous debates within the Latin American Marxisms, such as the discussions about possible universalization of the identity struggles—such as indigenous and feminist—and their articulation, beyond the proletariat as the classic Marxist subject of history; and the drive to produce, from Latin America, the Marxist thought as situated thought that refl ects on the peripheric social realities, linked to the anti-imperialist struggles and to the search for South-South collaboration.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 160, 2022: 11-34.