Órbitas de un pensamiento : Lenin y el marxismo en América Latina

Abstract

The objective of the article is to study different perspectives of the appropriation of the writings of Lenin in Latin American social theory. A shared feature of these trajectories was that the key figure of the Russian Revolution ceased to be only a historical icon to become a motif that encouraged theoretical production. Thus, the text shows different moments in the process of appropriation of Lenin’s legacy, that include: a reiteration of the classical version of theories on imperialism, an anticolonial reading after the Cuban revolution, and eventually, a quest to find in this writings an answer to the “crisis of Marxism”. As a result, the main references of the discussion are presented, along with the integration of a corpus of works and authors representative of a generally forgotten part of the history of Latin American Marxism.