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This article will be released in full online June 10, 2023. What is “Red Africa”? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth’s Red Africa: Reclaiming…

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (Yes, I know I got carried away on this... and tried to cram too much in. Think of it as a draft for something more formal and scholarly). History" with a capital "H" ...…

June 14 marks the birth of two crucial Latin American Marxist thinkers and revolutionaries: Ernesto Che Guevara and José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui is one of Latin America's most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru…

In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family. 

How long will Peru last? History weighs on today’s events By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The writer was the director of international relations in Venezuela’s presidential office and the country’s ambassador to Nicaragua. Currently, he is a guest professor at Shanghai University in China. This article was posted at sergioro07.blogspot.com on Nov. 13. Translation: Michael Otto. Mariategui’s magazine, Amauta. Credit: Juan Fajardo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In his “Seven Ess...

December 14, 2020 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Against the Current — Writing in the 1920s, the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui introduced a uniquely Latin American perspective on revolutionary socialist movements and theories. He famously noted, “we certainly do not want socialism in America to be a copy. It has to be a heroic creation.”[1] This political dynamism is what made him into an intellectual force with lasting relevance. M...