LATIN AMERICAN ANTI-MARXISM: THE CASE OF HERNÁN FAIR

This article is the product of a reaction against Latin American anti-marxism, especially against Hernán Fair’s position, which attacks marxism from a perspective that reproduces some stereotypes of the period of Cold War. Also, I criticize the argumentation of Hernán Fair for considering it highly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Alfaro Vargas, Roy
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Costa Rica
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/12485
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/12485
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:marxism
antimarxism
poststructuralism
postmodernity
postmarxism
marxismo
antimarxismo
postestructuralismo
postmodernidad
postmarxismo
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Sumario:This article is the product of a reaction against Latin American anti-marxism, especially against Hernán Fair’s position, which attacks marxism from a perspective that reproduces some stereotypes of the period of Cold War. Also, I criticize the argumentation of Hernán Fair for considering it highly contradictory and linked to the interests of neoliberalism. In this process of criticizing Fair’s position, I argue against the postmodern and poststructuralist trends that hide the vision of truly compromise from the Latin American intellectuals and imply to assume authors as Lacan, Derrida, etc., in an unthoughtful way.