Sergio Bagú (January 10, 1911 – December 2, 2002) was an Argentine Marxist historian, sociologist and political philosopher. Bagú, who was born in

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, was a lecturer at the

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, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. As a university professor, he was exiled by the military junta in

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following the 1966 Argentine Revolution. He died in

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. His most important book ''Economía de la sociedad colonial'' (The Economy of Colonial Society, 1949) was one of the first to challenge the idea of Latin American feudalism (dominant among the Communist parties of that time) and emphasize the capitalist dimension of the colonization of America.

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1911 births 2002 deaths Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine male writers Argentine emigrants to Mexico 20th-century Argentine philosophers Argentine male non-fiction writers Argentine expatriates in the United States {{Argentina-philosopher-stub