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Álvaro García Linera has published extensively, some twenty books and dozens of articles. His bibliography roughly parallels his own political trajectory. A Marxist critique characterizes his early writings: Crítica de la nación y la nación crítica naciente (1990) and De demonios escondidos y momentos de revolución (1991).
Then in the mid 1990s, García Linera theorized the basic unit of Andean social organization, the ayllu, as a Marxist category in Forma valor y forma comunidad : aproximación teórica-abstracta a los fundamentos civilizatorios que preceden al Ayllu universal (1995).
An increasing involvement in national politics turned García Linera’s writing toward critiquing the contemporary Bolivian political scene. La condición obrera : estructuras materiales y simbólicas del proletariado de la minería mediana (2001) takes on privatization of Bolivian tin mining, and indirectly Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Sánchez de Lozada and neoliberalism are directly attacked in Memorias de octubre (2002) and Febrero 2003 (2003).
As a major ideologue of the MAS party, García Linera has helped develop a political platform, analyzing the constituent assembly in "Asamblea constituyente" : hacia un nuevo estado boliviano (2004) and the Bolivian political system, Horizontes y límites del estado y el poder (2005).
His latest book, No somos juguete de nadie (2006), is a comparative analysis of social movements, natural resources, the state and decentralization.