Carlos Garrido

Carlos Garrido
Nationality	Cuban-Statesian
Website
https://www.midwesternmarx.com

Carlos Garrido is the co-founder and regular contributor to Midwestern Marx, a US-based socialist educational project. He is a Cuban-Statesian PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century Statesian socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (especially Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He is the author of The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2023) and also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (Midwestern Marx Publishing Press, 2022).