Abstract

Since the emergence of Marxist theoretical practise, it has had a mediated relationship with the workers’ movement. After the Russian Revolution, dogmatic Stalinism controlled the realm of the left, and fascist forces obscured the prospects of Marxist politics and theories. In the non-West, however, under the rule of imperialism as a stage of capitalism, there was an emergent development of Marxism along with a national liberation movement. The idea of Mariategui in Peru is an example of Tricontinental Marxism developed in the non-West. He first performed a Marxist analysis of economic and racial issues there, based on his specific understanding of Latin American history. In keeping with the materialist position of Marxism, he argued that racial problems in Latin America were fundamentally related to the economy. This point of view was far from economism and was intended to explore the practical relations between the economy and other historical elements. His Marxist outlook conflicted with the Comintern’s dogmatic official lines and was dismissed at the 1st Latin American Communist Congress in 1929. His legacy, however, has not been lost but again spotlighted in the movement for social equality in Latin America in the late 20th century.

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