Lecture by Martín Cortés/University of Buenos Aires, Non-Western Marxisms: Towards a South-South Perspective. Sponsored by the Center for Changing Systems of Power and HISB, 12:30-1:50 PM Campus Lifetime in Humanities 1008.

This presentation aims to explore the theoretical implications arising from the expansion of Marxism beyond its European origins, particularly in the context of peripheral capitalist societies. It examines the concept of "non-Western Marxisms" and the challenges it poses to Marxism's claims of universal applicability. Building upon previous research on the reception and translation of Marxism in Latin America, the presentation seeks to extend this analytical approach to other non-Western Marxist traditions, including those from the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Beginning from the assumption that these "peripheral" Marxisms have made important theoretical contributions in areas such as historical time, the national question, and the political subject, the main goal is to critically interrogate the tendency within traditional Marxist historiography to treat these regional contexts as isolated case studies, rather than as sites of substantive theoretical elaboration with universal implications.

Martín Cortés is a professor of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires and the author of, among other titles, Translating Marx, José Aricó and the New Latin American Marxism (Brill, 2020)