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The following selection is excerpted from "Imperialism and the Working Class in Latin America." 1 In the first part of the original article, Quijano points to the urgency of analyzing the world-wide crisis of capitalism in order to develop revolutionary strategies adequate to the historical moment. Reviewing Marx's analysis in Capital that the development of technology would set technical limits on the survival of capitalism, Quijano sees this process as having already substantially taken place in the most advanced automated sections of industry in the world centers of capitalist accumulation, placing an even-greater pressure to maximize surplus value in the more backward sectors. The extreme concentration of ownership of resources and production in the transnational corporation clashes ever-more openly with the extreme international socialization of production developed by these same corporations. The political and military requirements of maintaining capitalism internationally has brought intensified inflation and increasing impoverishment of the masses in underdeveloped areas. The reduction of direct labor input in automized industry has led to an intensification of the class struggle both in the labor intensive areas incorporated by imperialism as well as in the advanced areas. Capitalism is seen as increasingly absurd and irrational by ever-larger groups in the advanced capitalist countries. Latin America has polarized into three levels of development. The more advanced countries like Mexico and Brazil have their modern sectors tightly integrated with the developed countries' economies. Eradication of semi-feudal land holdings and semi-colonial extractive enclaves in the middle-level developed countries such as Colombia and Peru cannot be accomplished without undermining the stability of bourgeois power there. Following Lenin, Quijano refers to the imperialist chain which ties together the most backward sectors of the underdeveloped areas with the most technologically advanced centers. The technological transformation of production in Latin America make the experiences of workers there more like those of workers in developed countries. Conditions such as inflation and unemployment at the developed end of the chain increasingly mirror those within the backward areas, forging a clearer basis for international working-class unity.

Nesta ocasião me proponho, sobretudo, a colocar algumas das questões centrais que me parecem ainda insuficientemente pesquisadas no debate a respeito do processo chamado "globalização" [...]

Dependencia, cambio social y urbanización en Latinoamérica -- 'Polo marginal' y 'mano de obra marginal' -- Sobre la naturaleza actual del la crisis del capitalismo (primera conferencia) -- América Latina en la economía mundial -- ¿Del 'polo marginal' a la 'economia alternativa'? -- El trabajo al final del siglo XX -- Colonialidad del poder y clasificacion social -- José Carlos Mariátegui: reencuentro y debate: prólogo a 7 ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana -- Nacionalismo, neoimperialismo y militarismo en el Perú (introducción y parte primera) y La modernización y homogeneización relativa del capitalismo en el Perú -- El nuevo terreno de la lucha de clases y los problemas de la revolución en América Latina -- ¿Frente popular antimperialista o frente de trabajadores? -- Los usos de la democracia burguesa.

"Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power translates the late Peruvian theorist's most important essays. Trained as a sociologist, Aníbal Quijano is widely considered a foundational figure in the fields of decolonial studies and critical theory. The essays presented in the volume encompass nearly thirty years of Quijano's work, from 1988-2015. The collection not only introduces English-language readers to Quijano's thought; it also provides a fundamentally distinct lens for reading today's world system of power from its origins in the so-called periphery, that is, from Latin America and the Global South. The introduction to the book, written by the volume's editors, Walter D. Mignolo, Rita L. Segato, and Catherine E. Walsh, contextualizes the significance and ongoing influence of Quijano's writing"--

Aníbal Quijano ha argumentado que la persistencia de un pensamiento deriva del modo en que su relación cognitiva con el mundo permite la emergencia de nuevos sentidos en cada giro de la historia. Así, la presente antología se propone perfilar las especificidades del pensamiento de Quijano y el modo en que este ha interactuado con los acontecimientos cruciales de nuestra historia reciente, permitiendo, desde hace cinco décadas, lecturas que han transformado nuestra comprensión de la historia y la contemporaneidad latinoamericanas.

Aníbal Quijano ha argumentado que la persistencia de un pensamiento deriva del modo en que su relación cognitiva con el mundo permite la emergencia de nuevos sentidos en cada giro de la historia. En este sentido, la presente antología se propone perfilar las especificidades del pensamiento de Aníbal Quijano y el modo en que este se ha interactuado con los acontecimientos cruciales de nuestra historia reciente, permitiendo desde hace cinco décadas , lecturas que han transformado nuestra comprensión de la historia y la contemporaneidad latinoamericana.

The Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano is widely considered to be a foundational figure of the decolonial perspective grounded in three basic concepts: coloniality, coloniality of power, and the colonial matrix of power. His decolonial theorizations of these three concepts have transformed the principles and assumptions of the very idea of knowledge, impacted the social sciences and humanities, and questioned the myth of rationality in natural sciences. The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of Quijano's work, bringing them to an English-reading audience for the first time. This volume is not simply an introduction to Quijano's work; it achieves one of his unfulfilled goals: to write a book that contains his main hypotheses, concepts, and arguments. In this regard, the collection encourages a fuller understanding and broader implementation of the analyses and concepts that he developed over the course of his long career. Moreover, it demonstrates that the tools for reading and dismantling coloniality originated outside the academy in Latin America and the former Third World

"Bien vivir" : entre el "desarrollo" y la des/colonialidad del poder / Aníbal Quijano -- Aníbal Quijano y la perspectiva de la colonialidad del poder / Rita Laura Segato -- Una epistemología otra : la contribución de Aníbal Quijano a la reestructuración de las ciencias sociales de América Latina / César Germaná -- Felipe Guaman Poma, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Trinidad Enríquez y la teoría crítica : sus legados a la teoría social contemporánea / Carolina Ortiz -- Notas sobre "desigualdad," colonialidad y poder en América Latina / Jaime Coronado -- Notas sobre la teoría de la colonialidad del poder y la estructuración de la sociedad en América Latina / Pablo Quintero -- Colonialidad y des/colonialidad en América Latina : elementos teóricos / Julio Mejía

The resurgence of LATin AmericAn criTicAL thought in the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century has brought about some discoveries that distinguish it from the sociological production of the world. it is a scientific framework that has taken on the features of a new social scientific paradigm. A growing number of authors have aligned themselves with this perspective, with visions that include critical read- ings geared to contributing to transformative social change, in a Latin American context. Thus, we ask ourselves: What are the characteristics that distinguish Latin American critical thought and give it its identity? What are its germinal features and what are its unresolved matters? A distinguishing feature of this thought is its belonging to social sciences, particularly sociology and its traditions of critical theory, whose roots, as gramsci said, do not come from fundamentalist op- position but rather from the acquisition of scientific certainty on the basis of critical analysis (.)