Jorge Enea Spilimbergo (born in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on 25 September 1928; died in Buenos Aires on 4 September 2004) was an
Argentine
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nationalist socialist politician, poet, journalist, and writer. He was one of the founders of the
Izquierda Nacional party.
Spilimbergo wrote extensively on Latin America, the "
semi-colonial In Marxist theory, a semi-colony is a country which is officially an independent and sovereign nation, but which is in reality very much dependent and dominated by an imperialist country (or, in some cases, several imperialist countries).
This domi ...
world", and
Argentina. He wrote on the
national question
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In socialism
* ''Social Democracy and the National Question'' by Vladimir Medem in 1904
* ''So ...
and the inner fabric of alleged
imperialist policies, gathered in his ''
The national question in Marx''.
He was influenced by such
Marxist
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leaders and
theoreticians as
Vladimir Lenin,
Leon Trotsky,
Mao Zedong,
Ernesto Guevara and
Ho Chi Minh. He wrote on themes of the overthrow of
class societies and the passage from the realm of
necessity to the realm of
liberty.
Spilimbergo worked largely in obscurity as a
nonperson, allegedly due to objections from both the political
right and the
left
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* L ...
, including from many
Peronists, who objected primarily to his criticisms of the alleged national
bourgeois
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limitations of
Peronism
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.
Spilimbergo died in his
Buenos Aires home on 4 September 2004.
1928 births
2004 deaths
Argentine political writers
Argentine male writers
Argentine socialists
Marxist journalists
Marxist theorists
Place of birth missing
Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery
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