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The objective of this article is to critically reflect on the most widespread approaches to the concept of solidarity economy in Latin America in contrast to one of anti-colonial inspiration. When analyzing the case of the Brazilian Solidarity Economy Movement (mesb), I ask myself: How do the most well-known approaches deal with the problem of the historical separation between economics and politics? What is the contribution of the anti-colonial perspective? How does the separation between economics and politics appear in the trajectory of the mesb? What role does self-management play against such issues? Theoretically, the anticolonial-inspired approach to the concept contributes to the debate. The mesb, for its part, has not been able to bridge the gap between economics and politics to date.