ABSTRACT
This article aims to discuss the “decolonial” perspective of Aníbal Quijano (1930-2018) and its uses after José Carlos Mariátegui. Firstly, we relate the Latin American historical context since the 1980s to Marítegui’s interpretation of Aníbal Quijano’s work, based mainly on the formulation of a foundational theory (philosophical, epistemological, ethical and political) on the specificity of Latin America. Quijano then rediscovers a certain Mariátegui associated with the critical renovation of Latin American social theory. Through multiple mechanisms of dissemination, he establishes an well-acknowledged philosophical and epistemological characterization of Mariátegui’s arsenal, seen as the bastion of Eurocentric criticism (“alternative rationality”), in order to legitimize it as a fundamental reference of the “coloniality of power” theory.
KEYWORDS:
Aníbal Quijano; José Carlos Mariátegui; Coloniality of power; Marxism in Latin America; Alternative rationality; Critique of eurocentrism