Peter Baker

is a final-year PhD student in Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University, where he is writing his dissertation on the changing meanings of indigeneity and the increased visibility of indigenous actors in the public sphere in Bolivia over the last forty years.

The Phantom, The Plebeian and the State: Grupo Comuna and the Intellectual Career of Álvaro García Linera

The Phantom, The Plebeian and the State: Grupo Comuna and the Intellectual Career of Álvaro García Linera

By Peter Baker. In 1999, a collection of essays appeared concerning the relevance of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto to the contemporary conjuncture in Bolivia. It may have gone by unnoticed, were it not for the fact that its authors were about to become the principal interpreters of the new movements that irrupted in the wake of the Bolivian state crisis of 2000-2005.