Paper short abstract:

The paper focuses on the relation between the notion of Latin America Baroque and Marxist concept of use value.

Paper long abstract:

Bolivar Echeverría studied the capitalist modernity since the Marxist idea of two kind of value: use value and exchange value. Echeverría associated the first kind of value with a "natural form", where the work process has an equivalent with labour force and necessities. Contrary, exchange value develops the accumulation of capital and the abstract value inside the society. The conflict between both forms of value is, since Echeverría's perspective, unresolvable, and this produces four paradigmatic cultural positions: Romantic, Realistic, Classic and Baroque. Echeverría show the pertinence to focus, especially in Latin America, in the Baroque strategy. It is the one that in the history of the region supports and highlights the value of use. Also, this strategy develops complex forms of resistance to the capitalist system.