Left-wing authors took a revisionist view based on nationalism and anti-imperialism; they minimized the dispute between criollos and peninsulars and portrayed events as a dispute between enlightenment and absolutism.
Os autores de esquerdas tomaron unha visión revisionista sobre a base do nacionalismo e antiimperialismo; que minimizou a disputa entre crioulos e peninsulares e retratou acontecementos como unha disputa entre a ilustración e o absolutismo.