Reflexiones sobre la violencia desde América Latina

Overview & Synopsis

With a title similar to ours, Georges Sorel names his famous and controversial dissertations on the problem of violence in a Europe subjected to social upheaval as a result of the political struggles that had been taking place since at least the second half of the 19th century, and in the face of omens that did nothing but herald not only the revolutionary era that would reach its zenith with the October Revolution in Russia (1917), but above all the great continental devastation that World War I (1914-1918) and its even more catastrophic corollary, namely World War II (1939-1945), which Sorel, who died in 1922, would no longer live to see or think about. Similarly, he could not have thought (due to absence or epistemological deficiency) about the various struggles of peripheral peoples in their quest for political emancipation and cultural and economic liberation: from the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to, at least the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam War, including all the revolutions, insurgencies, rebellions, independence movements, and civil wars that took place during those years throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.