I should preface this by saying I’m mostly familiar with Mexican Marxism.
Ricardo Flores Magón and Enrique Flores Magón (extremely influential, communists in the rest of Latin America basically saw them as the ideologues of the Mexican Revolution),
César Vallejo (poet and associate of Mariátegui, his political writings are neglected),
M.N. Roy (very influential for the development of international communist anticolonial strategy),
Tristán Marof (was cooking some kind of insane things about Tawantinsuyu but interesting because of that),
Aníbal Ponce (historian and critic of education, a big missing piece if people only look at European critical theory and some of his takes on it precede Paulo Freire),
Aimé Césaire (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is one of the greatest poems about the Caribbean)
José Revueltas (great analysis of the world significance of the Mexican Revolution and the repression of the social revolutionary elements of it),
Che Guevara of course (you’d be surprised how little Anglophone people actually read anything by him),
Walter Rodney (Groundings with my Brothers is a great book)
Pablo González Casanova (great sociologist, a lot of what he wrote goes well with Henri Lefebvre, influenced the EZLN),
Ruy Mauro Marini (one of the greatest dependency theorists, does a lot of interesting things with Marx’s Capital),
Beatriz Nascimento (one of the main theorists of the Movimiento Negro in Brazil and influenced a lot of the reassessment of maroons),
Michael Löwy (great for connecting critical theory, Latin American Marxism, and the concept of utopia),
Gustavo Esteva (critic of developmentalism and one of the better radical democracy theorists), René Zavaleta Mercado (also a great theorist of radical democracy),
Andaiye (formerly worked with Walter Rodney and influential for the development of feminist social reproduction theory),
Álvaro García Linera (one of the theorists who I think is the most consistent defending Lenin’s position on governance, for better or worse, and a meeting point between autonomist Marxism and indianismo), and
Aníbal Quijano (great work on the world historical significance of colonialism and imperialism in the Americas)
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (revolutionary decolonial theorist and critic of North American academic decolonial theory, has some very interesting interpretations of abstract labor and language)
The worst feeling on earth is ‘some thousand people died today and I can’t do anything about it in the next minutes I have alloted to me’. You know people get used to anything
I completely disagree with those racist comments about Muslim teens enjoying music. That said, I've heard that music is haram in Islam, but I'm not sure if that's true... What do you think about it?
Imagine if every time someone so much as mentions a car, someone else chimes in to inform everyone that they don’t agree with the high energy use and resource extraction needed to make cars run. It would be more sensible than doing the same with AI now.
