Modernity In The Indianism Of Fausto Reinaga

Modernity in the Indianism of Fausto Reinaga

Summary

Modernity as a theme of study is not only modernity by modernity, but also in it the other modernity is recreated. On the other hand, the nation-state, as a modern product, is inherent in every society and exists, according to Fausto Reinaga, two ways to constitute the nation-state: the European and the Africo-Asytic. And as for the national problem of Bolivia, the Indianist Reinaga proposes the state-type of European type, although he supports that this is anti-western, however, he ends up raising the colonial state-nation. Therefore, it is concluded that the Indianism of Reinaga is crossed by Western modernity.

Introduction

This work proposes to address the modernity, the other modernity and the state-state in the Indianist discourse of Fausto Reinaga. For this essay, the Indian Revolution has been taken as study and analysis text.

Modernity is the West. However, Partha argues that modernity is the disintegration of itself, it is also progress or improvement;While Berman states that it is a machine that men and women are only mere players;Finally, Taylor states that the state-nation is a product of Western modernity.

As soon as it refers, now on the Indianist discourse of Fausto Reinaga, anti-westernism is sustained against power, against the colonial caste of the Bolivian mestizo white cholaje, which it accuses of having destroyed the homeland for more than four centuries. This caste would not even have even managed to constitute the Bolivian nation, except the nation-state.

Given this situation, after having made a synthesis, analysis and diagnosis of existing state-state types (European and Afro-Asian), and about the reality of the country, he affirms that there is no nation, much less the State-Bolivian nation. Therefore, it raises the thesis that the mission of the Indian Revolution is to unite in Carme (matter) and soul (spirit), organically and psychologically, to the Indian nation and the white-mestizo nation in a single nation (weldation of theAnother to white). The same task will be carried out by the same Indian and not by another, determination of the Indian on the white. Ideas for other risky and advanced. It is the Reinaga project.

In sum, in the face of this approach, it has been found that Reinaga fails to deploy and go out of the framework of modernity and coloniality with its proposal. Because the thesis of the state-nation is a colonial proposal, where it is the tax that builds the nation;And it is not the nations that constitute the State. This summarizes this effort on modernity and colonial nation-state in the Indianism of Fausto Reinaga.

Modernity, another modernity and nation-state

Modernity as a subject of study is broad and its conceptualization is also. In that sense some scholars (partha and others) identify types or forms of modernity;In addition, they affirm that "the state-nation is a product of modernity".

As for the concept we can affirm that "… true modernity consists in disintegrating and determining each of the particularities and circumstances of the same modernity". Of course to this determination, Berman, rather than defining the anatomy of modernity and helps to understand it better, what is or how it works. And he argues that "… is constituted by their machines, of which modern men and women are mere mechanical reproductions …". We take for granted with this argument that it is difficult to get rid of modernity. 

On the other hand Taylor, argues that modernity is always progress or improvement. The referred author perfectly relates the word progress to modernity;And Berman demonstrates that in other non -western cultures there are words that have translation to progress or improvement, it is the case of the word UNNati, in the Indian language that refers to progress or improvement. So, this is no stranger to other non -European cultures. This form of progress will be defined as our modernity;That, even, this “is not necessarily western, so it is called our modernity;And when making this difference it becomes evident that there are several modernities and that the others are not ours ”. Likewise, we must take into account how this modernity has been conceived and what is the link with the past of those days.

Berman also refers to the past, stating that he has a close relationship with modernity and argues that “going back is a way to go forward;to remember the modernisms of the nineteenth century of vision and courage to create the modernisms of the XXI ”. Our modernities are woven by the past, present and the future, but our. Therefore, Partha Chatterjee, affirms that modernities vary between different countries, civilizations and circumstances. 

Our modernity is built based on certain “… restrictions and it is for that reason that it has not developed as universal modernity, and one of the causes is precisely colonialism. For this reason they are not producers but consumers of Western modernity and the spaces of our modernity, they have that determination of being producers and not only consumers ”. That argument has to do with the link of the past, so that, what links the past is the feeling of cultural relevance. This is the cultural project of nationalism to produce its own modernity in terms of partha.

Finally, in terms of the state-state, as a product of modernity, it should be noted that this is both the result of feeling and has to do with nationalism. Therefore, "the concern for obtaining a State by those who experience as modern feelings as those of national belonging and identity …", is closely related to the constitution of the nation-state, which is that feeling conceived fromthe modernity. On the other hand, it should be affirmed that "modern states-nation are" imagined communities ", according to the famous expression of Benedict Anderson". And that the imaginary themselves are modern constructions.

So, we can assert that modernity is nothing more than the overcoming of the past and the present, which we call progress or improvement, but modernity is also not unique, nor is it universal, but there are other modernities, even if they are crossedFor the first, but they are different according to countries and cultures. Meanwhile, the nation-state is one of the most modern products that society has adopted as a social and legal political organization.