What is Marta Harnecker?
[[File:(Martha Harnecker) Lanzamiento del libro “Ecuador- una nueva izquierda en busca de la vida en plenitud” de Martha Harnecker (6053417074).jpg|200px|thumb|Harnecker in August 2011]] '''Marta Harnecker''' (1937 – 15 June 2019) was a [[Chile]]an [[sociologist]], [[political scientist]], journalist and activist. She published more than 80 books including ''Conceptos Elementales del Materialismo Histórico'' (1969), ''Cuba: ¿dictadura o democracia?'' (1975), ''Pueblos en armas'' (1983), ''¿Qué es la sociedad?'' (1986), ''Indígenas, cristianos y estudiantes en la revolución'' (1987), ''América Latina: Izquierda y crisis actual'' (1990) and ''A World to Build'' (2015). In 1973, after the fall of [[President of Cuba|President]] [[Salvador Allende]] and the [[coup d'état]] led by [[Augusto Pinochet]], she was forced into [[exile]]. She visited [[Cuba]] in 1960 and married noted Cuban revolutionary [[Manuel Piñeiro]]. She later married American-born economist Michael A. Lebowitz. Harnecker was of [[Austria]]n ancestry. She died in [[Canada]] on 15 June 2019, at the age of 82.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://insurgente.org/fallecio-la-companera-marta-harnecker-destacada-pensadora-marxista/|title=Falleció la compañera Marta Harnecker, destacada pensadora marxista|lang=es|date=16 June 2019|access-date=16 June 2019|website=insurgente.org|archive-date=16 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616141856/https://insurgente.org/fallecio-la-companera-marta-harnecker-destacada-pensadora-marxista/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Harnecker, Marta}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Chilean journalists]] [[Category:Communists]] [[Category:Political scientists]] [[Category:South American sociologists]] {{Bio-stub}}