Accumulation and Subjectivity

Accumulation and Subjectivity
Author: Karen Benezra
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438487584

Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left.

Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory

Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory
Author: Marc Becker
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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.

Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present

Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present
Author: Michael Lowy
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781591024965

This anthology of writings by Latin American Marxists in the twentieth century features theoretical, sociological, historical, and economic studies, as well as documents centering on the political struggles throughout the continent.--From publisher description.

Translating Marx

Translating Marx
Author: Martín Cortés
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Communism
ISBN: 9789004410176

In Translating Marx, Martín Cortés ponders José Aricó's contributions towards the constitution of Latin American Marxism. Accordingly, he studies Aricó in terms of his trajectory as a publisher and translator, while considering his thoughts on Marxism's fundamental theoretical problems.

Marx and Latin America

Marx and Latin America
Author: José M. Aricó
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004256350

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.

Marx and Freud in Latin America

Marx and Freud in Latin America
Author: Bruno Bosteels
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1844678474

This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression. Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature—the novel, poetry, theatre, film—more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.

Critical Marxism in Mexico

Critical Marxism in Mexico
Author: Stefan Gandler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004284680

In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the life and philosophy of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui

Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui
Author: Juan E. De Castro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004441867

Bread and Beauty is a study of the works and life of José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), the autodidact Peruvian scholar and revolutionary activist frequently considered the most important Latin American Marxist.

Marx Matters

Marx Matters
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004504796

In Marx Matters noted scholars explore the way a Marxian political economy addresses contemporary social problems, demonstrating the relevance of Marx today and outlining how his work can frame progressive programs for social change.