Western Marxism within the Four Modern Ethe.

The brief essay Considerations on Western Marxism by the English historian Perry Anderson is famous, where it delimits what he calls "Western Marxism" to critically contrast it with the "dogmatic" Marxism that, according to Anderson, took root especially in Eastern and backward Europe. Much later, another Marxist historian, the Italian Domenico Losurdo, responds to the English essay with another short essay: Western Marxism, how it was born, how it died and how it can be resurrected. In this work, Losurdo dismisses Anderson's position as Eurocentric and colonial, but also not very Marxist, since he abstracts from the concrete history of the so-called Eastern Marxism. The Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría had already outlined his theory of the four modern ethe as a criticism of Eurocentrism from the spatial, cultural and political, Latin American geography. We propose to reflect on the discussion Western Marxism vs Eastern Marxism, from the theoretical framework of Echeverría in order to throw a critical reading of the Eurocentrism inherent to much of Western Marxism, but with a Latin American perspective.

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