Background
Bagú was born on January 10, 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
historian philosopher sociologist
Bagú was born on January 10, 1911 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He was a lecturer at the University of Illinois, Middlebury College and the University of Buenos Aires. As a university professor, he was exiled by the military junta in Argentina following the 1966 Argentine Revolution. He died in Mexico City. His most important book Economía de la sociedad colonial (The Economy of Colonial Society, 1949) was one of the first to challenge the idea of Latin American feudalism (dominant among the Communist parties of that time) and emphasize the capitalist dimension of the colonization of America.
