Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 142

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2384
Date Written:  2009-09-01
Publisher:  Against The Current
Year Published:  2009
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13559

In an article published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”