The Althusser of the Argentine Communists (1967-1976)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the reception of Louis Althusser by communist intellectuals between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s. In this regard, we note that Althusserian Marxism was grasped as both a singular exercise in rereading Marx and a type of theoretical work that sustained the Maoist criticism of official communism. Likewise, we show that, although there was a frontal rejection of antihumanist notions, some Althusserian theses were incorporated into the theoretical discourse of the party in the struggle against other currents of contemporary thought.