What Is a Radical Economist Doing in Mexico?

Latin America offers a fruitful breeding ground for producing radical thought and practitioners. With a millenarian history of peoples who developed extraordinarily rich cultures, the Spanish conquest and independence movements wreaked havoc that only now is being overcome by peoples who are now recuperating their heritages and societies. Submerged into this setting, my formation as a radical confirmed Marx’s late musings: Those societies that were able to retain and strengthen their communal organizations and mutual responsibilities to themselves and their territories were most likely to be the successful examples of the revolutionaries he struggled to support during his lifetime. This essay offers a glimpse at the path I fashioned during more than one-half century that is spawning some of the new worlds to which radicals must contribute. JEL Classification : O13, P32, Q57, Z13