Author: Juan Grigera

In memory of Carlo Ginzburg, Historical Materialism returns to this remarkable reception of his work and, in particular, his ‘evidential paradigm’. These letters exchanged between Subcomandante Marcos and Adolfo Gilly, originally published in the Mexican journal Viento del Sur1 and translated here into English for the first time, show how Ginzburg’s work resonated well beyond microhistory and historiography, inspiring wider debates on Marxism, knowledge ‘from below’, revolution, class struggle, and armed struggle.