The Indigenous Question in the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the Colombian Communist Party (1926-1938)
The objective of this paper is to analyze how the indigenous question was considered in the process of shaping the national left-wing, specifically in the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR) and the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) between 1926 and 1938. I will seek to establish the relationship between these political actors and the indigenous movement, then represented by Manuel Quintin Lame, José Gonzalo Sanchez and Cesar Nino, among others. This, in turn, will allow me to raise a theoretical debate on the indigenous question based on the tension between class and race as two central components in considering this issue. Based on the theoretical proposal of the Peruvian intellectual José Carlos Mariategui and the sociologist Anibal Quijano, I argue that the racial and class dimension of the phenomenon reflects the two faces of the modern colonial system. Thus, the consideration of the indigenous question from the PSR and the PCC depended on the practical and theoretical definition of left-wing by both parties.
Keywords:
Revolutionary Socialist Party, Colombian Communist Party, Indigenous movement, Manuel Quintin Lame, José Gonzalo Sánchez, César Niño
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