New Research on the History of Marxism in Argentina

GAIDO, DANIEL; POY, LUCAS

Historical Materialism

Brill

Lugar: London; Año: 2011 vol. 19 p. 267 - 283

1465-4466

Argentine historiography in general, and the history of the Argentine left in particular, does not receive the attention it deserves in the Anglo-Saxon academic world due to linguistic and cultural barriers. In this article we attempt to review for the English-reading public three recent contributions to the history of Marxism in Argentina (Horacio Tarcus’ Marx en la Argentina: Sus primeros lectores obreros, intelectuales y científicos, Hernán Camarero’s A la conquista de la clase obrera: Los comunistas y el mundo del trabajo en la Argentina, 1920-1935, and Osvaldo Coggiola’s Historia del trotskismo en Argentina y América Latina) covering the entire historical spectrum from the early history of Argentine socialism to the history of the PCA and finally to the history of local Trotskyism. We attempt to place these works in the context of Argentine historiography and of the political context in which they were written.