Más allá del orientalismo: leer a Marx entre Chakrabarty y Aricó

MARCELO STARCENBAUM

Práticas Da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Año: 2020

2183-590X

Beyond the differences between the intellectual and political prac-tices of Dipesh Chakrabarty and José Aricó, the work of both authors represent a common way of intervening in the discussion about Marx?s Orientalism. Simultaneously with Said?s work and the debates generated by it, the Indian historian and the Argenti-ne intellectual developed a reading of Marx focused on the ambi-valences of the German thinker regarding non-European societies. Differentiated from the hypothesis of a necessary Eurocentrism in the configuration of Marxist theory, the two authors endeavored to demonstrate the need for Marxist concepts to account for periphe-ral realities. In the case of Chakrabarty, rescuing the narrative of capital but opening the Marxist corpus to the problem of historical difference. In the case of Aricó, destabilizing the Marxist tradition through the recovery of a Marx interested in the specificities of non-European societies. Through these operations, Chakrabarty and Aricó developed a critical movement within Marxism that involved maintaining a materialistic position but also opening up to national and regional singularities.