Marxismo afrodiaspórico

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Published: Jan 20, 2024
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epistemic racism, Afro Marxism, racial capitalism, black radical tradition, historical materialism.

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William Mina Aragón
Universidad del Cauca

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This paper seeks to establish the conceptual contributions of Marxism from the Afrocentric position of authors such as Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Cedric Robinson and Manuel Zapata Olivella, main referents in a current that I call Afrodiasporic Marxism. From a documentary methodology that analyzes the positions of these authors as historical, theoretical and conceptual documents, this work allows us to understand how the ethnic and racial component was transcendental in the origin, development and consolidation of modern capitalism, leaving as a result a racial capitalism, thus generating a perspective that strengthens the classical view of class struggle and historical materialism.

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Vol. 62 (2023)
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Author Biography

William Mina Aragón, Universidad del Cauca

Philosopher from Universidad del Valle and PhD in Sociology and Political Science from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2020 he coordinated the specialized seminar “Interculturality, literature and multiculturalism in Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920-2020)” for the Alari Institute at Harvard University. He has lectured at US universities such as North Carolina, Harvard, Vanderbilt and Howard (host of the interdisciplinary research group Muntú, of which he is also a member). He has published in Afro American Review, Criticism and Palara. Since 1998 he has been a full professor at the Universidad del Cauca (Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences) and is currently a peer reviewer for the Colombian Ministry of Science Research System. He has conducted interviews with  Fernando Savater, Edgar Morin, Alain Touraine, and Cornelius Castoriadis. He is the author of Historia, política y sociedad; (1997), Poesía y filosofía política (1999), El pensamiento Afro. Más allá de Oriente y Occidente (2003), Afrocolombianidad: ensayo sobre arte, cultura y política (2008), Derechos humanos afrocaucanos (2009), Las gestas del afro por la libertad (2010), La imaginación creadora afrodiaspórica (2014), Un legado intercultural (coauthor and editor, 2016), Novela, sociedad y cultura (2017), El escritor y la política (2019), and Manuel Zapata Olivella: un humanista afrodiaspórico (2020).