Jose Carlos Mariategui 1894 – 1930

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.