Jose Carlos Mariategui Quotes on Knowledge
Jose Carlos Mariategui was a Peruvian journalist and Marxist political philosopher and one of the most important Latin American thinkers of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Jose Carlos Mariategui on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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“La obra maestra no florece sino en un terreno abonado por una anónima u oscura multitud de obras mediocres.”
The masterpiece flourishes only on land fertilized by an anonymous or obscure multitude of mediocre works. [ citation needed ] -
“The masterpiece flourishes only on land fertilized by an anonymous or obscure multitude of mediocre works. [ citation needed ]”
La obra maestra no florece sino en un terreno abonado por una anónima u oscura multitud de obras mediocres. -
“No es posible democratizar la enseñanza de un país sin democratizar su economía y sin democratizar, por ende, su superestructura política.”
It is not possible to democratize the education of a country without democratizing its economy and without democratizing, therefore, its political superstructure." Source: "The process of public instruction" [ specific citation needed ] -
“No renegamos, propiamente, la herencia española; renegamos la herencia feudal" [ citation needed ]”
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