Ibero-American modernity from the economic key: an Echeverrian contribution to critical history

Abstract

This article begins by exploring the incorporation of the echevarrian “economic key” to the methodology
of Critical History. Next, it is discussed how the form assumed by the movement of the forces
of capital conditioned the irruption of modernity in Ibero-America. In this sense, the next section
tries to understand the integration of the region into the system from the accumulation of “capitalist
events”; the work concludes by addressing, from the perspective of Bolívar Echeverría, how
capital became the backbone of Ibero-American modernity, bringing various unfavorable economic
consequences for the majority.