Marx and Latin America

Focusing on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolivar, Arico examines why Latin America was apparently 'excluded' from Marx's thought, showing that the German thinker's hostility to Bonapatism and authoritarianism (which he identified with the Liberator) colored his attitude toward the continent's ind [...]
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Focusing on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolivar, Arico examines why Latin America was apparently 'excluded' from Marx's thought, showing that the German thinker's hostility to Bonapatism and authoritarianism (which he identified with the Liberator) colored his attitude toward the continent's independence-processes. While criticizing Marx's misreading of this process, Arico documents countervailing tendencies in his views of other non-European societies.