José Aricó, la temporalidad plural y la cuestión de la nación: hacia el marxismo como teoría de la traducción

This text intends to underline the centrality that the problem of plural temporality has in the work of José Aricó, especially in his reflection on the conditions of possibility of a Latin American Marxism. For this, his book Marx and Latin America is fundamentally analyzed together with a set of notes and drafts from his archive regarding it. It is argued that, in Aricó, the key to a reading of plural temporality lies in the consideration of the nation as a specific space for the knotting of capitalist universality, as well as in the postulation of translation as a characteristic critical procedure of Marxism.