Los mitos latinoamericanos: Vigencia de la obra del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario

Abstract

Latin American societies are full of political myths built over time. Carlos Rangel in his book "Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario", proposed to denounce many of those fallacies elaborated especially by sectors linked to marxist thought. In that sense, this work aims to perform an analysis of this important work with great validity today. The author analyzes several myths, among them: The purity of indigenous societies, the black legend about the Hispanic conqueror, the acceptance of marxism as a theory in defense of the disadvantaged, imperialism as a cause of the backwardness of the region, are just some of the many wrong rhetoric present in Latin America. The analytical-synthetic method, hermeneutics and heuristics were used to interpret the text. It is concluded that a large part of the myths analyzed by Carlos Rangel in his text are still valid in Latin America, we are still looking to build new utopias based on the indigenous myths of the good savage to achieve social equality, with an anti-Western and anti-imperialist discourse that it has only served to justify several despotisms on the continent in the name of a revolution.