Indigenismo, Populism, and Marxism

When one attempts to understand the agrarian question in Latin America, it is almost certain that one is immediately confronted with what is termed the problem and, furthermore, as a specific phenomenon for certain countries of the continent, the problem. Naturally these problems could be approached-and in fact have been approached-from diverse points of view. Although frequently these viewpoints appear to correspond to differing intellectual inclinations or to the personal theoretical conceptions of the analyst, it would not be difficult to discover beneath the apparent heterogeneity certain commonalities on fundamental propositions. This is so because we are not, in reality, confronted with individual opinions, but rather with class outlooks.' Very schematically, it is possible to identify at least three positions concerning the campesino and indigenous socioeconomic groups that in general reflect three clearly differentiated class viewpoints: The first perspective emphasizes the backward character of these systems in reference to the Western-capitalist pattern and, in consequence, proposes

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• Socialism, Democracy and the Territorial Imperative

  Open Access•David Slater•Antipode•1986

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• Toward Indigeneous Liberation

  Open Access•Patricia L Ballard•Antipode•1984

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