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Ouviña, Hernán
Thwaites Rey, Mabel
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This paper deals with the work of three Ecuadorian Marxist intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century: Agustín Cueva, Bolívar Echeverría and Alejandro Moreano, who, from sociology and philosophy, have contributed to the development of a critical reading of the social, political, and cultural processes of Latin America. The question this paper answers is how did Cueva, Echeverría and Moreano conceive Marxism, the cultural dimension, and politics?
To answer this question, a study is carried out that takes their texts as significant material that must be analyzed to understand their positions and their problematic axes. This is done from a sociological approach and the history of intellectuals, understanding the intellectual as a character linked to the processes of knowledge production from institutions such as the university or the left-wing parties. The context of their emergence, their intellectual biography and their political-academic project are analysed based on three discussions that at the same time organize the chapters of this research: 1) their reception and interpretation of Marx; 2) the materialist reading of culture; and 3) politics and revolution in the thought of these three authors.
Under these parameters it can be pointed out that Cueva constructs his Marxism in relation to classical Marxism under the influence of Lenin, privileging concepts such as socio-economic formation, class and exploitation as the foundations of a Marxist sociology; while Echeverría developed a philosophical Marxism related to the tradition of Western Marxism and the critique of political economy; Moreano on the other hand reflected his Marxism attached to Latin American political processes and the globalization of capital.
In relation to culture, the three authors made a materialist reading, in the case of Cueva and Moreano focused on understanding the relationship between literature and society in Latin America. Echeverría reflected on culture as a constitutive moment of the human, anchored to the process of social reproduction and the formation of identities. Finally, the three authors agreed that the politics of capital is expressed in the apolitical nature of social life, which can be reinvented through the appropriation of the political as a mechanism that ultimately allows for the liberation of creativity and human vitality.
To answer this question, a study is carried out that takes their texts as significant material that must be analyzed to understand their positions and their problematic axes. This is done from a sociological approach and the history of intellectuals, understanding the intellectual as a character linked to the processes of knowledge production from institutions such as the university or the left-wing parties. The context of their emergence, their intellectual biography and their political-academic project are analysed based on three discussions that at the same time organize the chapters of this research: 1) their reception and interpretation of Marx; 2) the materialist reading of culture; and 3) politics and revolution in the thought of these three authors.
Under these parameters it can be pointed out that Cueva constructs his Marxism in relation to classical Marxism under the influence of Lenin, privileging concepts such as socio-economic formation, class and exploitation as the foundations of a Marxist sociology; while Echeverría developed a philosophical Marxism related to the tradition of Western Marxism and the critique of political economy; Moreano on the other hand reflected his Marxism attached to Latin American political processes and the globalization of capital.
In relation to culture, the three authors made a materialist reading, in the case of Cueva and Moreano focused on understanding the relationship between literature and society in Latin America. Echeverría reflected on culture as a constitutive moment of the human, anchored to the process of social reproduction and the formation of identities. Finally, the three authors agreed that the politics of capital is expressed in the apolitical nature of social life, which can be reinvented through the appropriation of the political as a mechanism that ultimately allows for the liberation of creativity and human vitality.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales