Marta Harnecker Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Marta Harnecker (1937 – 14 June 2019) was a Chilean journalist, author, psychologist, sociologist, and Marxist intellectual. She studied the analysis of labor movements and acted as an advisor to the government of Cuba, as well as a collaborator with left-wing political movements within Latin America. She was active in the government of Salvador Allende between 1970 and 1973, and provided counsel to Hugo Chavez between 2004 and 2011.

Harnecker wrote over 80 books, including The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism and The Left after Seattle. Her more recent books, including Hugo Chavez Frias: Un hombre, un pueblo, Venezuela: Militares junto al pueblo, and Venezuela: una revolución sui generis, reflected her support of the Bolivarian revolution. On 15 August 2014, Harnecker accepted the 2013 Liberator’s Prize for Critical Thought for her book A World To Build, which was published in English in January 2015.

In 1968, Harnecker joined the Socialist Party of Chile. Following the 1973 Chilean coup d’etat against president Salvador Allende, she was forced into exile and lived in Cuba until the death of her first husband, Manuel Piñeiro. While living in Cuba, Harnecker founded the research institute Memoria Popular Latinoamerica (MEPLA) and continued to write. After her time in Cuba, she provided counsel to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. In 2004, she married Canadian economist Michael A. Lebowitz.

Marta Harnecker was born in Santiago de Chile in 1937. Her family had Austrian roots. She studied psychology at the Catholic University of Chile in 1962, and did postgraduate studies in Paris with Paul Ricoeur and Louis Althusser. Upon her return to Chile in 1968, she taught Historical Materialism and Political Economy in Sociology at the University of Chile and was director of the political magazine Chile Hoy.