Strongly influenced by Marx and Marxist thinkers like Antonio Gramsci, Kautsky, and others, Aricó would go on to promote these intellectuals through his own writings, translations and teachings.
[2] As a politically active young adult, he also participated in the militant student movement aimed at reforming both the university and the government, which at the time was functioning under Peronism.
His writings were published in many different countries and sources throughout Latin-America (Socialismo y Participación, Peru; Debates, Argentina; Nexos, Mexico; Nueva Sociedad, Venezuela; etc.).
[1] Finally, the third magazine, Controversia, para un examen de la realidad argentina, was written within the context of the exiled Argentinians in Mexico,[3] of which Aricó was one.
Two more books of Aricó's writings were published in 1999 after his death (La hipótesis de Justo: escritos sobre el socialismo en América Latina; and The Interviews, 1974-1991).