• pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    LATAM marxists? I havn’t heard of this classification before.

    I would have classified trots as western marxists. I didn’t know they had a LATAM following.

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      57 minutes ago

      LATAM Marxists aren’t a classification, what I mean is Marxist orgs that exist in LATAM. Regarding the specific lines, we have MLs, trots, maoists, hoxhaists, postmodern marxists, liberation theologians, and others.

      A curiosity about some LATAM currents, the Posadist tendency is originally from a Trot org based on Argentina.

      But LATAM has been an intense battlefield of Marxists orgs/tendencies vs reactionary forces and we had guerrillas and civil wars basically everywhere in the 20th century. The PC do B from Brazil took part in the “Guerrilha do Araguaia”, MR8 and other armed resistance movements. Dilma Rousseff, ex president, was also a guerrilla fighter. Gustavo Petro, recent president of Colombia, also participated in the M-19 guerrilla. Argentina had the Montoneros and Uruguay the Tupamaros. However, not all guerrillas were Marxist, and there were many other liberal tendencies in those as well.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      Trotsky lived in LATAM during exile. As such, Trots exist in LATAM more frequently than in other global south regions.