SIMON BOLIVAR BY KARL MARX
Abstract
This small text by Marx, written in the form of an entry in the late 1850s for an American encyclopedia, is extremely interesting to be read in the context of 200 years of Latin American independence processes, now celebrated in 2010. Marx's text , in itself, may cause some strangeness for those used to seeing in the figure of Simón Bolivar a mythical American leader, committed to the national emancipation of the peoples then under the yoke of the European metropolises. As a result, the short text is accompanied by two other providential texts, an introduction by the Argentine Marxist José Aricó and a prologue signed by Marcos Rosenmann and Sara Cuadrado, both from the Complutense University of Madrid. These texts help us to situate with the greatest possible precision the political and intellectual context in which Marx wrote his entry on the “Liberator”.
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