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... aspects of his conception of socialism as the self-conscious creation of human activity rather than the inevitable product of an inexorable historic process. It was Che’s return—in an epoch in which much that passed for Marxism had become a mere left-wing variant of positivist sociology—to Marx’s emphasis...

...Brian E. Loveman Marxism and Democracy in Chile: From 1932 to the Fall of Allende . By Faúndez Julio . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1988 . Notes. Index . Pp. xi , 305 . Cloth . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Tracing the political role of Chile’s two...

...Stanley G. Payne Spanish Marxism versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M . By Alba Víctor and Schwartz Stephen . New Brunswick : Transaction Books , 1988 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 323 . Cloth . $44.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press...

...Barry Carr * The author is Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Historians of twentieth-century Mexico generally agree that Marxism contributed little and late to the Mexican workers’ movement. 1...

...Neill Macaulay The Marxism of Régis Debray: Between Lenin and Guevara . By Ramm Hartmut . Lawrence , 1978 . The Regents Press of Kansas . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 240 . Cloth. $13.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 “On January 1, 1959, Fidel...

...Stephen P. Mumme Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The publication of this revised edition of Luis E. Aguilar’s excellent anthology of primary documents of Latin American Marxism is a welcome event. Augmented with seventeen new documents, the revised edition represents a timely...

...Raúl P. Saba National Marxism in Latin America: José Carlos Mariátegui’s Thought and Politics . By Vanden Harry E. . Boulder : Lynne Reinner , 1986 . Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 198 . Cloth . $22.50 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

...Sheldon B. Liss Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present: An Anthology . Edited by Löwy Michael . Translated by Pearlman Michael . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press , 1992 . Index. Notes , xix , 296 pp. Cloth . $49.95 . Copyright 1993 by Duke...

...Ramón Eduardo Ruiz What is missing in this study is the Mexicans who accepted Marxism and built the Communist party. There are scores of names, but we never get to know any of the personalities. They remain simply names, sometimes accompanied by a capsule biography. Who these Mexicans were...

... has given rise to the development of much research of a collaborative nature involving an inter-disciplinary approach as opposed to traditional individual scholarship. The problem of Marxism and Marxist movements in Latin America has been dealt with by Soviet historians as a part of the general...

...Thomas Mathews Fidel Castro’s Political Programs from Reformism to “Marxism-Leninism” . By Wilkerson Loree . Gainesville , 1965 . University of Florida Press . Latin American Monographs, Second Series . Bibliography . Pp. 100 . Paper. $2.00 . Copyright 1966 by Duke University...

...Martin Needler Aguilar’s introduction breaks no new ground and develops no new theory of Latin American Marxism. Also the division of the years covered into periods is conventional enough, and the content is narrative and descriptive. But the history is sound; the style is literate...

... in the wind indicating that in Peru, as throughout much of the world, Marxism is losing ground to an eclectic ideology that rejects Leninism and prizes human freedom: economic, political, and religious. In many Peruvian intellectuals of the past, among them Bartolomé Herrera, Victor Andrés Belaúnde...

... Marxism as an alien ideology. Even in the Communist parties, Marc Becker argues, traces of an independent and indigenous Marxism are evident. As for the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions, the author believes these were primarily responses to each country’s national reality. The Peruvian José Carlos...

... of the contemporary world is the ideological struggle between Materialists, basing their ideas on Marxism-Leninism and favoring social progress, and Idealists, who are frankly enemies of progress. The author’s particular concern about this struggle is that, although Mexican leftists all share the common...

... would assert that neither view approximates Marxism. Packenham offers a useful, detailed, and devastating textual analysis and critique of the work of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, but exaggerates Cardoso’s influence on dependency thinking by focusing on U.S. social science. Packenham contrasts...

... current known as ‘national leftism’ (or creole marxism, gaucho socialism, or peronist trotskyism) is the most important political event in Argentine intellectual life.” The reviewer is tempted to agree; yet this Argentine izquierda nacional is virtually unknown in the United States. For the individual...

...Fredrick B. Pike Unlike some who have studied Mariátegui’s thought, Chang-Rodríguez insists that the influence of religion remained constant and was never supplanted by Marxism. Indeed, the author sees Mariátegui as a forerunner of a subsequent generation of intellectuals convinced...

... Commission for Latin America (ECLA) since then. In the Introduction and final chapter Hirschman is even sympathetic to his interpretation of Marxism. And in between he addresses the “rich” with competent critiques of the Alliance for Progress, false friendship (the abrazo) and other interAmerican ties...

...; another is the question of whether something unique to Andean culture either creates a different modernity or offers an alternative. A third is the ongoing dilemma: does Marxism’s logical conclusion have to be authoritarianism (born of instrumental reasons), or does Marxism have a utopian or human side...