| Summary: | This article studies the transnational career of the Brazilian intellectual Darcy Ribeiro in order to reconstruct the connections between the interventions of left movements in the university question, emphasizing educational centers in Argentina, Mexico, Chile and other countries in the region. This approach to the university question allows us to avoid one-directional perspectives that depict the sixties and seventies as a time of rupture, marked by the predominance of the New Left. Far from these linear visions, the debate on the crisis in the universities captures regular crossovers between different actors, such as communist youth, left Peronists and groups that were strongly critical of the traditional left. The article concludes that, if one explores these debates, perhaps one could find more bridges between varied experiences of politization, radicalization and partisanization, but with shared issues and approaches.
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