Utopia and the dialectic in Latin American liberation / / by Eugene Gogol.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 78
• VerfasserIn: Walker Gogol, Eugene,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 78.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Meaning of Utopia in Latin America /; Dialectical Thought—from Hegel to Marx, from Lenin to Dunayevskaya. What is the Power of Negativity for Our Day? /; Are There Emancipatory Threads between Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin America? /; Haiti, 1986–1993: The Uprooting (Dejoucki), the Flood (Lavalas) and the Repression /; The Revolutionary Process in Venezuela—Advances, Contradictions, Questions /; Mexico’s Revolutionary Forms of Organization: The Zapatistas and the Indigenous Autonomous Communities in Resistance /; Bolivia: In Revolutionary Transformation, 2000–2005; The Pull of State-Capitalism, 2006–2013 /; Social Movements in Argentina /; Indigenous Struggles for Territory, Autonomy and Natural Resources /; Women as Force and Reason of Social Transformations /; Youth, Popular Education, Teachers /; Horizontal-ism, State-ism, Marxism and the Indigenous Dimension—Raul Zibechi, Álvaro García Linera, Hugo Blanco /; The Zapatistas and the Dialectic /; Marx, Hegel and Dunayevskaya—Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization in the Context of Latin American Liberation /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004297162
• ISSN: 1573-4234
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Eugene Gogol.

Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation begins by examining the concept of utopia in Latin American thought, particularly its roots within indigenous emancipatory practice, and suggests that within this concept of utopia can be found a resonance with the dialectic of negativity that Hegel developed under the impact of the French Revolution, further developed by such thinker-activists as Marx, Lenin and Raya Dunayevskaya. From this theoretical-philosophical plane, the study moves to the liberation practices of social movements in recent Latin American history. Movements such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, Indigenous feminism throughout the Americas, and Indigenous struggles in Bolivia and Colombia, are among those taken up--most often in the words of the participants. The study concludes by discussing a dialectic of philosophy and organization in the context of Latin American liberation.