Marxism and the national question

Abstract

The article explores the relationship between Marxism and the national question from a Latin American perspective. Notes that can be seen a theoretical shift in the work of Karl Marx, which from investigations carried out from the fifties of the nineteenth century. This change in the look that Marx had peripheral nations was abandoned by those who tried to develop their theoretical legacy. However, the article advances in the understanding of the originality of some Latin American Marxists like Ernesto Che Guevara or Jose Carlos Mariategui to recover the anti-imperialist struggles of the Latin American sense in which a figure like Simon Bolivar becomes essential to understand the future of the liberation struggles in this region.