LATAM Marxists aren’t a classification, what I mean is Marxist orgs that exist in LATAM. Regarding the specific lines, we have MLs, trots, maoists, hoxhaists, postmodern marxists, liberation theologians, and others.
A curiosity about some LATAM currents, the Posadist tendency is originally from a Trot org based on Argentina.
But LATAM has been an intense battlefield of Marxists orgs/tendencies vs reactionary forces and we had guerrillas and civil wars basically everywhere in the 20th century. The PC do B from Brazil took part in the “Guerrilha do Araguaia”, MR8 and other armed resistance movements. Dilma Rousseff, ex president, was also a guerrilla fighter. Gustavo Petro, recent president of Colombia, also participated in the M-19 guerrilla. Argentina had the Montoneros and Uruguay the Tupamaros. However, not all guerrillas were Marxist, and there were many other liberal tendencies in those as well.
Edit: but the problem is that, after the fall of the USSR, many parties split, many parties and leaders became revisionist, and the remaining ML/Trot parties became insignificant, dogmatic or sectarian.
Ok, I had always thought western Marxists and Trot’s as synonyms.
I had also assumed that trotskyism wouldn’t be as much of a prevailing theory because they don’t have the same western media that constantly condemns everything AES states do. AES states are also much more friendly to the capitalist global south compared to the west. Maybe the constant coups the US does against revolutions in LATAM make it more difficult to understand socialism working for themselves without a revolution in the US.
LATAM marxists? I havn’t heard of this classification before.
I would have classified trots as western marxists. I didn’t know they had a LATAM following.
Trotsky lived in LATAM during exile. As such, Trots exist in LATAM more frequently than in other global south regions.
Yeah, but I think the country with the biggest Trot orgs is Argentina. But I don’t know if Trotsky himself went there.
Makes sense!
LATAM Marxists aren’t a classification, what I mean is Marxist orgs that exist in LATAM. Regarding the specific lines, we have MLs, trots, maoists, hoxhaists, postmodern marxists, liberation theologians, and others.
A curiosity about some LATAM currents, the Posadist tendency is originally from a Trot org based on Argentina.
But LATAM has been an intense battlefield of Marxists orgs/tendencies vs reactionary forces and we had guerrillas and civil wars basically everywhere in the 20th century. The PC do B from Brazil took part in the “Guerrilha do Araguaia”, MR8 and other armed resistance movements. Dilma Rousseff, ex president, was also a guerrilla fighter. Gustavo Petro, recent president of Colombia, also participated in the M-19 guerrilla. Argentina had the Montoneros and Uruguay the Tupamaros. However, not all guerrillas were Marxist, and there were many other liberal tendencies in those as well.
Edit: but the problem is that, after the fall of the USSR, many parties split, many parties and leaders became revisionist, and the remaining ML/Trot parties became insignificant, dogmatic or sectarian.
Ok, I had always thought western Marxists and Trot’s as synonyms.
I had also assumed that trotskyism wouldn’t be as much of a prevailing theory because they don’t have the same western media that constantly condemns everything AES states do. AES states are also much more friendly to the capitalist global south compared to the west. Maybe the constant coups the US does against revolutions in LATAM make it more difficult to understand socialism working for themselves without a revolution in the US.