This volume Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez reflects on the thought of Marx; The Communist Manifesto in its 150th anniversary; Gramsci reading for the twenty-first century; Marxism as a philosophy of praxis; Octavio Paz's attitude to Marx, Marxism and socialism; the outlook of Marxism in our continent; the thought and work of Jose Carlos Mariategui and Che Guevara and the relationship between European and Latin American Marxism Marxism