Jose Carlos Mariategui 1894 – 1930
Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894 – 1930) was a Peruvian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Marxism and Critical Theory.
Jose Carlos Mariategui was a Peruvian journalist and Marxist political philosopher and one of the most important Latin American thinkers of the twentieth century. Self-educated and largely self-taught after a childhood injury, he edited the influential review Amauta and founded the Peruvian Socialist Party. His Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality argued that the decisive question for socialism in the Andes was the indigenous question and the land question, and that any Latin American socialism must be a creative adaptation rather than a tracing of European models. He died at thirty-five.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Peruvian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Marxism, Critical Theory
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui:
“Indo-American socialism cannot be a tracing or copy of European socialism. It must be a heroic creation.”
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Attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui:
“The indigenous problem is the problem of land.”
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Attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui:
“Marxism is not a religion. It is a method of historical interpretation, a method of action.”
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Attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui:
“Without the Indian, there is no Peru.”
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Attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui:
“The myth, not the program, is the engine of history.”
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- Jose Carlos Mariategui was a Peruvian journalist and Marxist political philosopher and one of the most important Latin American thinkers of the twentieth century.
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