Jose Carlos Mariategui Quotes
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. The quotes below are attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui, organized by topic.
Jose Carlos Mariategui on Politics
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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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“The indigenous problem is the problem of land.”
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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.”
Jose Carlos Mariategui on Truth
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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.”