Approaches in Kusch conceptualization, national thought and Latino American popular uprinsings

Abstract

Our common reflection -and differentiated by the respective formation- is interested in thinking of other ways of entering the understanding about the nature of our America, its culture, its history and its popular political struggles. We present first the Kuschean categories in their philosophical context, and then briefly study the way in which they allow to think in an original way the question of national-being and of internal colonialism in the thought of J.J. Hernández Arregui, as well as the possible decolonization of the gaze on the American popular movements of this century. We conclude, provisionally, that the decolonial categories of Kusch, by the epistemic rupture that they suppose, allow to characterize better the option for the people and the ways of understanding in another way the contexts of neo-colonialism. Finally, thinking about the popular struggle from the category of phagocytosis allows to highlight the fundamental communal characteristic of these political movements.