Althusser desde América Latina:

confluencias con José Aricó, René Zavaleta y Agustín Cueva

Abstract

This article is an attempt to articulate the thought of Louis Althusser and three important latin-american thinkers: José Aricó, René Zavaleta e Agustín Cueva. We start drawing a parallel between the reading of Aricó and Althusser of Lenin's classic “What to do,” emphasizing, in the process, the combat waged by them against both spontaneism and economist reformism. After that, some concepts of Zavaleta were mobilized (“social equation,” “necessary ideology”, “surplus ideology”) in order to criticize, develop and deepen the althusserian reflexions present in his posthumous “On the Reproduction of Capitalism”. Finally, we tried to approach the critics of Agustín Cueva and Althusser to Gramsci’s thought, stressing, to that, the contexts both thinkers, i.e., the fight against eurocommunism (Althusser) and against liberal-democratic ideologies (Cueva).