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  • Historical materialist analysis of the construction of Hispanic civilization: from the conquest to the viceroyal period to the balkanization of the empire

  • Hispanic contributions to US independence and its national project: Manifest Destiny to the Civil Rights Movement

  • Ideological formation and construction of national identities after independence: Nacionalismo, Latinoamericanismo, Indigenismo, Bolivarismo, etc.

  • US imperialism in Hispanic America: Monroe Doctrine to Operation Condor

  • Hispanic Catholic theology and philosophy: from La Escuela de Salamanca to Liberation Theology to Gustavo Bueno’s Materialismo Filosófico

  • Baroque modernity and the aesthetic dimension of Hispanic cultural life

  • History and legacy of the Catholic Church in America: from Jesuit utopianism to conflicts with freemasonry and anti-clericalism

  • The Amerindian question in Hispanic Marxist thought, from Mariategui and APRA to Bolivar Echeverría and the EZLN

  • What is the legacy of El Movimiento? Chicano radicalism and it’s wider relationship to the 60’s and 70’s third worldist/maoist left and the subsequent New Communist Movement

  • The question of identity: Hispanic, Chicano, Latino, Latinx, ______-American?

  • The position of the Hispanic diaspora within the American national question

  • Chicano labor history and the making of the Mexican-American working class

  • The War on Drugs, “narco terrorism” and its Cold War origins

  • 21st century Hispanic and Iberophone geopolitics in the age of multipolarity

  • The economics and politics of mass migration and border policy

  • Hispanic-American Cold War, guerrilla warfare, armed struggle, foco theory and the military strategy of national liberation

  • Development, dependency and imperialism in the Third World

  • Hispanic Catholic conservatism in the American “culture war”, Hispanics 4 Trump?

  • Theory and practice of socialist governance: Mexico’s 4T, Cuban Revolution, Chinese Market-Socialism, National-Popular Developmentalism (Perón, Cardenas, etc.)

  • Critique of the postcolonial and decolonial “compatible left” and the Academic-NGO-State Department apparatus of #Woke Empire

Submissions

Our critical research seeks to fill the knowledge gap and language barrier regarding the following topics:

Help develop the SWM Institute by submitting original essays or sharing your translation work

For submissions email us at southwesternmarx@gmail.com. Any messages regarding other concerns, please use our contact form.

Submission guidelines:

  • While we do not have a minimum or a maximum word limit, we encourage submissions within the range of 2,000 to 8,500 words; although larger or smaller works will also be considered.

  • Please include article abstract and a few sentences about yourself.

  • There is no preferred citation style. Articles submissions will be reviewed by our editorial board and given a response within a few weeks.

Want to join our team?

If you are interested in joining our team as a writer, editor, translator, graphic designer, or artist, email your CV or resume and a sample of your work to southwesternmarx@gmail.com for us to review.