Marxisms and decoloniality: open questions

Abstract

The present text aims to open lines of problematization between, on the one hand, certain features shared by various Marxist discourses; and, on the other, some central hypotheses of decolonial studies. In particular, it focuses on highlighting what are the theoretic gaps, negations, omissions, etc., that impose to these Marxisms epistemological and ontological limitations on the understanding of the Being of America. The text is segmented into three sections: in the first, Armando Bartra's questioning of decolonial studies is taken as the basis, considering them synthetic to a broader spectrum of positions in the same tenor. In the second, recovering the theorization on geopolitics and modernity elaborated by the philosopher of decoloniality, José Gandarilla, the levels of abstraction are placed from which the historical form and sense of the whole are thought —as an ontological horizon. In the third, finally, the discussion of the previous section is prolonged to focuses the debate on the problem of the dispute over the State in America.