Luis Aguilar, ed. Marxism in Latin America.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Introduction to the Revised Edition

I – Background, 1890-1920

Chronology of Important Events

1 – Marx and Engels on Latin America

2 – On the Death of Karl Marx / José Martí

3 – The Future Cuban Socialist Party / Diego Vicente Tejera

4 – Ideological Background of the Workers’ Socialist Party of Puerto Rico / Santiago Iglesias

5 – Argentina and the Problems of Socialism / Juan B. Justo

6 – Socialism Is More than Marxism / Emilio Frugoni

II – The Emergence of the Communist Parties and the “Hard Line” Period, 1920-1935

Chronology of Important Events

7 – The Dawn of Social Revolution in Chile / Luis Emilio Recabarren

8 – Yankeeland and Marxism / José Carlos Mariátegui

9 – The Gaucho Legend and the Spirit of Our Revolution / Aníbal Ponce

10 – The Organization and Immediate Claims of Forestry and Agricultural Workers / The Confederation of Latin American Labor Unions

11 – The Communist Party and the Cuban Revolutionary Situation / The Communist Party of Cuba

12 – The Situation of the Latin American Communist Parties on the Eve of the Seventh Congress of the Comintern / The Communist International

III – The Popular Front and World War II, 1935-1945

Chronology of Important Events

13 – A program of Action for the Victory of the Chilean Popular Front / The Communist Party of Chile

14 – Batista, Grau, and the Roads to National Unity / Blas Roca

15 – Brazilian Communists in the Fight for Democracy / Luís Carlos Prestes

IV – Cold War and New Crisis, 1946-1959

Chronology of Important Events

16 – The End of the War and the New American Imperialism / Rodney Arismendi

17 – Consequences of Imperialist Penetration in Chile / Julio César Jobet

18 – Oligarchies and the Agony of Bourgeois Democracy / Antonio García

19 – Crisis on the March / Caio Prado, Jr.

20 – The Left and the Socialist Revolution in Argentina / Silvio Frondizi

V – The Cuban Revolution and Its Aftermath, 1959-1968

Chronology of Important Events

21 – Cuba, Historical Exception or Vanguard in the Anti-Colonial Struggle? / Ernesto (Ché) Guevara

22 – The Lessons of the Cuban Revolution / Alvaro Mendoza Díez

23 – Dangers of Empiricism in Latin American Revolutions / Jorge Abelardo Ramos

24 – New Trends in Catholicism and the Policy of the Chilean Communist Parties / Orlando Millas

25 – The Chinese Line and the Latin American Communist Parties / Victorio Codovilla – Rodney Arismendi

26 – Problems of a United Democratic Front in Guatemala / José Millá

27 – Has the Revolution Become More Difficult in Latin America? / José Manuel Fortuny

28 – The Peruvian Revolution / Luis F. de la Puente Uceda

29 – The Duty of Marxist-Leninists and the Revolutionary Line / Fidel Castro

30 – Dilemma of Leadership: The Guerrilla / Alfredo Fernández – Óscar Zanetti

31 – Dilemma of Leadership: The Communist Party / Joint Declaration of the Communist Parties of Colombia and Venezuela

32 – Dilemma of Leadership: To Whom Does the Vanguard Belong? / Luis Sánchez

VI – From the Peruvian Military Revolution to Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1968-1977

Chronology of Important Events

33 – Cuba’s Support of Soviet Action against Czechoslovakia / Fidel Castro

34 – Leninism or Militarism?: The Dilemma of the Urban Guerrilla / João Quartim

35 – Should the Left Support the Peruvian “Revolution” … An Independent Marxist Explains Why It Should / Ismael Frias

36 – Should the Left Support the Peruvian “Revolution”? An Independent Marxist gives an implicit Negative / Aníbal Quijano

37 – Should the Left Support the Peruvian “Revolution”? The Communist Party Answers in the Affirmative / Jorge del Prado

38 – And Later Qualifies Its Support / Jaime Figueroa

39 – Proletarian Conscience and Marxist Rhetoric / Pablo González Casanova

40 – Chile: A perilous Way to Socialism. The Extreme Left, the Communists, and Reformists / Salvador Allende

41 – The Extreme Left, the Communists, and Reformists inside the Chilean Government / Gerry Foley

42 – The Socialists against Reformism in the Government / Carlos Altamirano

43 – The Failure in Chile and the Future of a Strategy / Volodia Teitelboim

44 – Conference of Communist Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean

45 – The Communist Party of Ecuador sess the Military Junta

46 – The International Dimension of the Cuban Revolution: Africa, … China, … U.S.A. / Fidel Castro

VII – Criticism and Self-Criticism

47 – The “Stalinist” Parties in Bolivia and Cuba / Carlos Salazar Montejo

48 – A Headless Proletariat in Mexico / José Revueltas

49 – Our Errors / Venezuelan Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)

50 – Self-Criticism / The Communist Party of Brazil

51 – The Venezuelan Communist Party Replies to Fidel Castro / Central Committee of the Venezuelan Communist Party

52 – The Left on Trial / Teodoro Petkoff

53 – Maoist Criticism of the Tupamaros / Partido Marxista-Leninista (Maoísta) del Uruguay

Appendix: Diplomatic Relations of the Independent Latin American States with the U.S.S.R.

A Bibliographical Note