Marta harnecker biography

Chilean academic (1937–2019)

Marta Harnecker (1937 – 14 June 2019) was a Chileanjournalist, author, psychologist, sociologist, and Marxist intellectual. She studied the analysis of labor movements and acted as an advisor to the government of Cuba, and worked with left-wing political movements within Latin America. She was active in the government of Salvador Allende between 1970 and 1973, and provided advice to Hugo Chávez between 2004 and 2011.

Biography

Marta Harnecker was born in Santiago de Chile in 1937.^[2] Her family had Austrian roots. She studied psychology at the Catholic University of Chile in 1962, and did postgraduate studies in Paris with Paul Ricoeur and Louis Althusser.^[3] Upon her return to Chile in 1968, she taught Historical Materialism and Political Economy in Sociology at the University of Chile and was director of the political magazine Chile Hoy.

In 1968, Harnecker joined the Socialist Party of Chile. She worke

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Born in Chile, Harnecker began her activism in the early s as a Catholic student activist before moving to France, where she studied under Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

Marta Harnecker - Wikiwand

The international left has lost one of its most lucid intellectual, pedagogical educators and determined activists with the passing of Marta Harnecker on June 14, aged

In Memory of Marta Harnecker | Social Theory Applied

Political scientist, author, and activist, Marta Harnecker has devoted her life to collaborating in building radical democracy in Latin American communities where people have, for generations, experienced crushing poverty and a near complete loss of control over their lives.