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The objective of this text is to carry out a historiographical balance of Marxism in Colombia, within the framework of intellectual history, in order to determine its scope and its main debates, as well as to trace future lines of research. This balance is based on an initial concern, which consists of an apparent neglect of the national historiography about the processes of appropriation of Marxism in Colombia. The question we ask ourselves is why it is that in Colombian historiography we still do not have a set of works that, from intellectual history, tell about the history of Marxism in the country. Faced with this question, two working hypotheses can be formulated. On the one hand, from an epistemological perspective, it is possible that the history of Marxism is blurred between the history of socialism, of leftist political movements, and of the revolutionary struggles of the popular sectors. The second hypothesis has a much more political meaning and affects the field of the historiography of the left in general, and consists of the relative lack of interest that has marked the study of the national left in the last twenty years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of a central volume for Latin American and global historiography: Modos de Producción en América Latina (Modes of Production in Latin America). Published within the framework of the Cuadernos de Pasado y Presente, it is a fundamental text for understanding the course of historical materialism in the 1970s. In this article we propose a review of its place in historiography through its historical contextualisation and an analysis of the links between history and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the historiographical production of texts on Karl Marx, Marxism, and openly Marxist authors in Colombia in the second half of the 20th century. The main objective is to recognize the importance of the techniques and theories related to the study of history advanced by authors related to Marxism, to the doctrine of historical materialism, emphasizing the study of relations of production, and its scientific and political application. Its hypothesis is to define the relationship between Marxism and historiography, and the main contributions of Marxist historiography to the Colombian academy. The methodological design makes a conceptual, historical and legal review. By way of reflection, he highlighted the impulse that the discourse of Marxism and the Marxists gave to the way of struggle of the workers, the unions and the organizations of the circles of scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oscar del Barco and Bolívar Echeverría are two of the most important Latin American philosophers of recent times, especially about the encounter between philosophy and Marxism. In this sense, this article seeks to expose and problematize some of the main points of his reading around Marx's texts, giving special attention to the way in which both, from a deconstructive exercise, question the assumptions with which Marxism has been operating, emphasizing those theoretical and practical pillars that constitute the development of their respective crisis, both in Europe and in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The self-proclaimed Cultural and Democratic Revolution in Bolivia includes between its proposals components of nationalism, Indianism and Marxism and declared the horizon of “Vivir Bien” as overcoming capitalism. This raises the question of how that process relates to the Marxist tradition of the transition to socialism. To answer this question, the article first reviews how the project is formulated in the documents of the Movimiento al Socialismo governments, then makes a critical recovery of the thought of Álvaro García Linera on Marxism and socialism searching to see the relationship between the two, project and thought, and closes with a reflection about if this experience contributes to the renewal or setback of socialist praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the conception of the Cuban historian Sergio Aguirre regarding the formation of the Cuban nation, based on his essays compiled in the work Eco de Caminos (1974). In addition, it is problematized around the historiographical method from which the author starts to record the different moments of said process. The strong ideological component of Aguirre's work in general and of his conception of the national in particular is demonstrated; and this is the basis of its value and originality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the relationship between Marxism and social sciences in Estudios Marxistas. Revista colombiana de ciencias sociales, published between 1969 and 1987 by a group of intellectuals of the Communist Party. The central argument argues that the appearance of this publication, its production dynamics, its interpretation of Marxism and social research, as well as the debates it generated, can be explained by the need of this group of intellectuals to dispute the nascent academic field, where intellectual nuclei of the "new left" had great influence. In order to develop this argument, the paper is structured in four parts. The first reconstructs the political and intellectual context in which Estudios Marxistas emerged and examines the project it outlined. The second describes the dynamics of its scientific production. The third part studies some of the uses that the research presented therein made of the Marxist tradition. The fourth part analyzes the critique of the Estudios Marxistas editorial group of the "new history" current. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to explore the multiple character of the concept of passive revolution, developed by Antonio Gramsci, as theoretical tool and ponder its strategic value. We begin with the analysis of what we consider the analytic background of the concept in his pre-prison writings. Following, we address the concept itself, its construction method and the different proposals that Gramsci developed. Thereafter we analyze some contemporary works that from within Marxism have developed avenues of inquiry revisiting these different proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article intends to develop the proposal of Carlos Matus and Oscar Varsavsky to articulate cybernetics and dialectics, particularly to address the transition problems from a social system to another. Tt investigates the ways in which both authors conceived such a system from a topic of zones, roads and barriers that establish complex relationships between space and time. Then, it deals with their reading of Carlos Domingo's work devoted to structural change and, finally, it investigates the way in which they consider the relevance of Marxist theory to the viability construction of a profound transformation in the social system. Finally, a series of conclusions are offered linked to the reading of Carlos Matus today and to the pioneering nature of these Latin American contributions to complexity theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the public universities of Colombia formulated theories around Marx and Marxism in the second half of the 20th century. These "debates" were open to consultation, with the publication of several texts that they studied as a cluster of theories originating in the 19th century that would serve to study practices such as the socialist economy planned by the State, the critique of Eurocentrism, and transformation projects. politics, in 20th century societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

José Carlos Mariátegui's Marxism is inscribed in the tradition of the defeated. His thought is a theoretical crossbreeding between Europe and the heterogeneity of Latin America. Mariátegui is one of the first Marxists to recognize the survival of agrarian communism and declare that the "problem of the Indian" is the problem of the land. This is one of the main hypotheses of what we call the decentering of abstract Marxism. Mariátegui's Marxism would be neither European nor anti-European, but rather, the topology where abstract speculation stops. This opens Marxism to the materiality of a social and cultural politics based on agonal communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work centres on the contribution of Bolivar Echeverría to critical theory and in particular the relevance of his challenge to Eurocentrism, an important element of Marxist debates in and about Latin America. Echeverría's cultural materialism has two key foundations: the recognition of the use-value or natural form of social reproduction and his critique of the onedimensional conception of capitalist modernity. His argument for the existence of diverse modernities and a particular form of baroque ethos involves a decolonial critique of power and a deconstruction of Eurocentrism that brings to the forefront the contradiction, conflict and forms of resistance that persist in the dispute for the construction of alternative modernities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nahuel Moreno assumes the problem of the crisis of Marxism from a historical, theoretical and political perspective in an attempt to discover its meaning and scope. From this general perspective, he will say that the first point that will have to be questioned will be the conception of history from a predetermined and determined sense that would inevitably lead towards a future socialist society. On the other hand, the crisis of Marxism that is exhibited both in theoretical and political terms, as a result of a negative balance of the experiences of really existing socialisms and of the transformations of the capitalist system at a global level. This last question leads him to wonder about the current potentiality or the failure of dialectics as a specific way of understanding the logic of capitalism and the processes of resistance. The potential that Moreno finds in the dialectic lies in the fact that he allows us to understand the multiplicity of the social as a totality in permanent movement of complex and overdetermined interrelations. In this sense, the constant in social processes are totalizations and their permanent movements. The parts or elements of the totality (capitalist in this case) develop unevenly, combine, contradict, deny, transform, and overdetermine themselves in particular ways according to regions and different socio-political temporalities. Moreno will set his sights on the neoliberal mutations that occurred in the Latin American region from the 70's. From there, he committed to an awakening of revolutionary politics as the last instance of the socialist possibility. In this way, in the present work we intend to inquire about the characterization that he makes regarding the neoliberal stage. At the same time, to analyze the way in which politics is approached in connection with the social structure and subjectivities and how it becomes the central problem by which the historical evolution will be defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes to conceptually and analytically examine fundamental approaches to some of the works of two Chilean Marxists of the twentieth century: Marta Harnecker and Osvaldo Fernández. Methodologically we have defined an interpretative approach to some of the most important texts they have produced, identifying the main thesis they raise around Marx, capitalism and the struggles for socialism in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to show the validity of the argument between "campesinistas" and "descampesinistas" in the contemporary Argentinian marxism. At the same time we will remark that both positions share an equal starting point. So that we will go back to the origins of the marxist controversy known as the agrarian question at international level, aiming to track the genesis of the supposed underlying facts which reappear in the current debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In lights of the resurgence in South America of the Marxist version of dependency theory, especially of the theoretical developments by Ruy Mauro Marini and considering the criticisms that followed its reappearance, this present paper hopes to make a contribution in this last sense, to emphasize the limitations of Marxist Dependency Theory when presenting the specific determination of the political consciousness of the working class. Starting from what Marini says about the political course that led to the 1973 coup d'Etat in Chile, we will show how his generic conception of the working class. An ideological conception that emerges from the naturalization of the national character of the accumulation process, obliterates the place of ground rent as a fundamental determination of capital accumulation in South America, therefore limiting the potential of political action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to inquire into Antonio Gramsci's work, specifically into some of the central concepts of the noted "Prison Notebooks". Our analysis seeks to contrast the perspective of some of the reading keys that have been developed in the last decades, mainly with the contributions of Peter D. Thomas, Fabio Frosini and Massimo Modonessi among others. We content that the relevance given to the production context of the writings and the critical analysis of some of the precedent reading patterns enable more actual considerations regarding Gramsci's marxism and its strategic value within contemporary social theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to show which are the thematic and problematic emphases associated with the field of education and pedagogy, based on the review of texts published in Latin American journals that are situated in a critical, left-wing position and in some cases directly from the Marxism. At the same time, it seeks to account for the degrees of use of the analytical perspectives outlined by Karl Marx and Marxism in the mentioned works referring to education. We have been able to verify that the selected publications make little reference to contributions of Marx's work and Marxism, addressing issues of the history of education, educational policies, student and teacher movements, but without developing or use the pedagogical dimension of Marxism and even, some of them, reproducing in an uncritical way the hegemonic conceptions in education. To carry out this bibliographic balance, were reviewed recent editions of the journals Actuel Marx/Interventions, Izquierdas, La Migraña. Revista de análisis político, Herramienta. Revista de debate y crítica marxista, y Memoria. Revista de crítica militante. In methodological terms, was chosen a qualitative work based on the bibliographic analysis of academic journals and particularly an analysis of thematic content of the selected articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a transnational methodology, within Comparative Literature studies, we will analyze the works The Trial by Franz Kafka and A Rosa do Povo by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, aiming to approach Marxist aesthetics. Literature is understood as a criticalrealistic awareness of class struggles and of the historical subjects who experience them. The people's process that underlies the interpretation of this article runs through the experiences of characters in conflict with the capitalist system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to launch a decolonial feminist perspective to the Marxist theory of value and capital accumulation, shifting the emphasis on the capital / labor [wage earner] relationship to the forms of non-wage labor exploitation and oppression, namely, those that developed inherent to racist patriarchy, due to the overlap between colonialism, patriarchy and slavery, whose draft of the category I am defining by being-other-woman articulate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze national diversity as a specific form of the capitalist mode of production. We review the fundamental works of Marxism dedicated to its study and we note the permanence of a current problem in the fact that what it is constitutive nation peculiarities tends to be conceived as existing externally to capital. We argue that this result in thinking nations as if each one of them were bearer of the general potentialities of the capitalist mode of production and failing to understand the differentiated world unity of capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the first decades of the twentieth century, and coinciding with the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940), Mexican Marxist writers like Rafael Ramos Pedrueza set out to promote a revisionist exercise in the history of Mexico. His particular conception of the past, in the light of historical materialism, allowed him to make a reading of the Spanish conquest and the long viceroyalty of New Spain. Thus, and in this context, the objective of this article is to analyze Ramos Pedrueza's contributions around these historical phenomena, as well as his analysis of the concept of «Madre Patria», one of the main elements of Hispanic thought of the time. In a context marked by the Spanish Civil War, and supporting his desire for universal fraternity, Ramos Pedrueza will make his idea of Spain --and the «two Spain»-- a lesson of obligatory learning for Mexico and the rest of Hispanic America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The positions of the Mexican Communist Party and the League of Socialist Agronomists regarding worker-peasant cooperation are analyzed, in relation to the agrarian and peasant movement, between 1935 and 1947. The ideology of both organizations is approached considering them expressions of Marxism produced by the Mexican Revolution. It is explained how they configured a different militancy, which defined their effectiveness in containing the fragmentation between workers and peasants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to place some debates that have marked the configuration of Latin American Marxism as a heterodox theoretical translation with certain guidelines that make it unique. In this sense, it is proposed to contribute to an open debate on the ways of conceiving the practice and theory of Marxism at a continental level. The document is also presented as an introduction to problematic nodes that have helped to build this current, pointing out the main lines of research around the continental Marxism, the limits thar the Eurocentric lecture hade made and proposing translation practices as an alternative to dogmatisms. Finally, some importants points of debate are shown that have divide the ways of interpreting Latin American Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article polemizes with the interpretative key that affirms that after the passage to the underground in 1974 there was a process of increasing militarization in the organization Montoneros. To this end, it systematizes and analyzes the political and military orientations and initiatives of Montoneros between 1974 and 1980, based on a hypothesis that affirms that, despite clandestinization, during this entire period efforts were devoted both to military and political actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The entrance of Camilo Torres Restrepo to the National Liberation Army (ELN), supposed the alliance between two visions that were considered antagonistic in a guerrilla organization: Marxism and Christianity. Based on a qualitative study, this research aims to analyze the union between Marxism and Christianity in the ELN in the period from 1986 to 1989. It is argued that the union is mediated by the symbolism created around the figure of Camilo Torres that it manifested itself in the promotion of a possible, and even obligatory, link between Christians and Marxists in the guerrilla organization in the late 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we analyze the influence of José Carlos Mariátegui and Alejandro Lipschutz on a marxist's researchers network interested in isssues from Northern Chile. This is done with the aim of understanding its impact on issues such as ethnic disintegration and cultural and political autonomy and the academic construction of the past, present and future of the Andean peoples of the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of the term atorrante began to be spread among locals after 1880 and, a decade later, was already consolidated in the urban vocabulary: in popular language, the press and police narrative but also in the works of important intellectual referents. Because of the wide belief that Argentina was a country of job opportunities, the situations of absence of paid work used to be interpreted as voluntary marginality. The atorrante, who was associated with a young man, healthy and foreign, that is, the potential worker, synthesized that idea. In that same context, a sector of socialist with a marxist perspective, centered around the newspaper El Obrero, sought to impose a different interpretation of the atorrante. This article analyzes the way in wich the place occupied by the "without work" was considered from that publication -particularly those identified as atorrantes- in the Argentine social structure and the role they could play in a working class formation. The aim of the article is to analyse the use of marxist categories in order of resignify that stigmatized figure and include it in the worker's sector to which they aspired to represent. This allows us to reflect on some of the less studied forms adopted by the fight for the constitution of a worker identity in this embryonic stage. In particular, the dispute over the definition of workers' problems and the demarcation of the limits of the category of "worker" (and its reverse side). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the complex intellectual formative process of José Carlos Mariátegui. The aim is to discover the ideas underlying this process during his stay in Italy, identify his intellectual referents and how they influenced his political thinking. Mariátegui resided in Italy from 1919 to 1923, a period which can be considered key years for the recent history of Italy as the country saw the creation of the Italian Communist Party contemporary to the rise of the Fascist movement. My methodological approach will be firstly investigating what I call the "stone age" of Mariátegui, or his youthful phase characterized by his attraction towards decadence literary and a first introduction to the political and social problems of Peruvian society. Then I will analyze Mariátegui's ideas and points of view on the political, intellectual, and cultural protagonists of the Italian life of the time. Finally, I will focus on the intellectual inheritance of Mariátegui, taking into account five main intellectuals (Labriola, Croce, Gobetti, Gramsci and Tilgher) who -in a different way, influenced the thinking and the intellectual universe of the Peruvian Marxist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies Marini's view on the 'overexploitation of the labour power' and it reviews the contributions of this concept to the understanding of the Latin American capitalism. The concept of 'super-exploitation' is interesting to explain the exploitation of the working class in Latin America amid the shift of global economy since the 1970s onwards. However, Marini has a 'stagnationist' interpretation about overexploitation and this idea does not grasp accurately the current dynamic of capitalism. The debate about the contributions and shortcomings of Marini's view is framed in the work of contemporary authors from the Marxist dependency theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work proposes the analysis of the Marxist Nationalism Notes. For the National Liberation Front magazine, published in Buenos Aires in 1957, with the objective of identifying lines and topics of the debate postulated by the Nationalism after the overthrow of the Juan D. Perón government, how the nationalists link themselves with their own tradition and how they consider the "national issue" in articulation with the ideas and concepts from the Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will try to propose the hypothesis that the crisis of Marxism and the difficulties of real socialism (particularly the Soviet case) were linked at some point with the philosophical dimension and elements about the philosophy of history in the work of Marx and Engels. From the philosophies of history present in his writings, different traditions have been consolidated within Marxism, of which we shall be interested in studying in particular the "diffusionist" tradition, which will provide the theoretical-philosophical support of Stalinism through DIAMAT. The aim of the work will therefore be to identify in the work of Marx and Engels those elements that gave rise to the diffusionist current and to the interpretation of DIAMAT as the official philosophy of the history of the international communist movement. Then we will rescue the most humanist tradition of Marx's thought to reflect the potentiality of critical thinking today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present work we seek to rescue the debate on overexploitation, both in its theoretical origins and subsequent discussions in the Latin American social thought. This, under the assumption that such intellectual productions still represent useful heuristic tools that allow to apprehend the recent mutations of neoliberal capitalism and the problems that the world of work is currently facing in the region. Through a review of the theoretical elaboration on the concept of overexploitation developed by the Brazilian Ruy Mauro Marini, as well as the main discussions and further developments around it, we point out the central aspects of the concept, its main problematical knots, and some interpretation keys for the study of work in Latin America today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following communication proposes a reinterpretation of the classic book by Oscar Teran: "Our sixties years" from a position Bakhtinian, understanding this text as a statement that is part of a larger chain dialogic. Starting from this position, we took as a center, recompose the chains that bind ourselves with preceding and subsequent positions held by the same logic. We analized the elements contextuales and paratextuales of "Our years sesentas"; following the proposed for Ginzburg in the paradigm indiciario, we look for indications in the text and relate them to past interventions of Teran in political-cultural magazines or positions in debates that took place in the same publications, without the necessary participation of this author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work intends to reconstruct the formulations elaborated by the Argentinian communist thinker Héctor P. Agosti during the period between 1956 -months after the coup which deposed president Juan Domingo Perón- and the poll process that took place during 1962, marked by passionate and fruitful debates in the leftist political field. In these years, Agosti not only produced his most relevant works, but he also triggered a renewal in the communist cultural field, favoured by his novel theoretical poses inspired by Gramsci's ideas, not by then so well known. His debates with different figures of the peronist and the national lefts, not always friendly but frequently rich in coincidences. constituted an interesting aspect of his theoretical-political production, which is necessary to recover to provide a more complete idea of his contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article interpreted the arguments used by Catholic thought to build an anticommunist position in Chile in early 1960. Its review different discussions and justifications that shaped like the traditional anti-communist alternatives, the Social -- Christianity turn and the intensification of the confrontation between Marxism and Catholicism on the eve of the presidential elections of 1964. It concludes by highlighting the centrality of anti - communism as a factor of cohesion of Catholic thought, and its importance in shaping the contemporary political arena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]