Introduction

Abstract

Introduction to issue 8 of Bajo el Volcán. The issue brings together works on the Bolivian conjuncture, the crisis of the State in Haiti, labor and social movements in Argentina, the Mexican guerrilla, Walter Benjamin’s romantic Marxism, Auschwitz and modernity, critical sociology, Norberto Bobbio and democracy, political power according to Enrique Dussel, coffee growers in Veracruz and the religious imaginary, as well as two book reviews.