Abigarramiento y hegemonía : historia y política en el pensamiento andino

Abstract

The core of our research is, strictly speaking, the issue of hegemony in the Andean world. The approach we have chosen to address this theoretical-political problem is not based on the analysis of this category from a firmly philological point of view nor have we chosen to draw a frame of modulations, uses and potentialities of the notion of hegemony, but we have drawn a political contour — understood as equivalent to the different historical efforts to build hegemony relations — in two countries strongly marked by the Hispanic colonial heritage: Bolivia and Peru. Therefore, our research is not only focused on the history and politics in those nations, but it does so by deploying, as the backbone of the narration, a critical dialogue with the historical approaches and political proposals that emerge from the intellectual production of two of the most important Latin American Marxists of the twentieth century: the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui and the Bolivian René Zavaleta Mercado...