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Latin Americanization of Marxism
By John Riddell

John Riddell is co-editor of Socialist Voice and
editor of The Communist International in Lenin's Time,
a six-volume anthology of documents, speeches,
manifestos and commentary. This article is based on
his talk at the Historical Materialism conference at
York University in Toronto on April 26, 2008.

Over the past decade, a new rise of mass struggles in
Latin America has sparked an encounter between
revolutionists of that region and many of those based
in the imperialist countries. In many of these
struggles, as in Bolivia under the presidency of Evo
Morales, Indigenous peoples are in the lead.

Latin American revolutionists are enriching Marxism in
the field of theory as well as of action. This article
offers some introductory comments indicating ways in
which their ideas are linking up with and drawing
attention to important but little-known aspects of
Marxist thought. [...]