Marx and Latin America, Paperback by Arica, Jose; Broder, David (TRN), Brand ...

In a work centered on Marxs harsh biography of Simón Bolívar, José Aricó examines why Latin America was apparently excluded from Marxs thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed some Eurocentric prejudice.

Aricó shows how the German thinkers 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 Marxs misreading of Latin-American realities, Aricó demonstrates contemporaneous, countervailing tendencies in Marxs thought, including his appraisal of the revolutionary potentialities of other peripheral extra-European societies. As such, Aricó convincingly argues that Marxs work was not a dogma of linear progress, but a living, contradictory body of thought constantly in development