An important rebuttal of those who accuse Marx of 'Eurocentrism,' through a close reading of his views on Latin America.

The Latin-American Marxism of Aricó: the Search for the Autonomy of Politics in Marx's Fallacy, Horacio Crespo

Introduction, Carlos Franco
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

1. An Evaded Reality
2. The Growth of the Movement and the Crisis of Theory
3. The Reality and Fallacy of Marx's 'Eurocentrism'
4. De Te Fabula Narratur?
5. The Theoretical and Political Presuppositions of National 'Autonomy'
6. Hegel Redivivus
7. The Political Reasons for a Disconnect
8. Marx's Bolívar

Appendix 1. Rosa Luxemburg and the 'Crisis' of Marxism
Appendix 2. Hegel and Latin America
Appendix 3. Marx and the Prospects of Russian Society
Appendix 4. Marx's Shift of Attention Towards Agrarian Communities
Appendix 5. On the Social-Democratic Leaders' August 1914 'Betrayal'
Appendix 6. Marx and the Spanish Revolution
Appendix 7. Aníbal Ponce's 'Marginal Notes'
Appendix 8. On the Effect of British Hegemony in Latin America
Appendix 9. 'Bolivar y Ponte', by Karl Marx

Epilogue to the Second Edition

Bibliography
Index

José Aricó: (1931-91) was among Argentina's leading twentieth-century socialist thinkers. Co-founder of the journal Pasado y Presente, his works include Mariátegui y los orígenes del marxismo latinoamericano and La cola del diablo: Itinerario de Gramsci en América Latina

David Broder is a member of the Historical Materialism editorial board. He is currently a History PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, researching the role of dissident communists in the Italian resistance 1943 45.