Notes on the reception of “Capital” in Mexico

Abstract

The work explores the socio-political and cultural environments under which the work of Karl Marx in Mexico was known throughout the 20th century. Especially for his opus magnum whose first editions went through a tangled path, which contrasts with the richness of the important editorial projects that would be deployed in the 70s and 80s. The link that Mexico assumes for North America and Latin America brings its socio-political and cultural experience closer to and away from both realities and becomes equally participant in them. Since early the American radical influence was also combined with European currents to encourage the spread of socialist thought in Mexico, but it would be the changes in the American conservative influence that would reverse the pattern at the end of the 20th century. Also, its 2008 crisis has renewed interest in favor of a new recovery cycle of the critical theory.