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Who was Mariátegui?

José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian Marxist intellectual and founder of the Communist Party of Peru. His writings, particularly his historical-materialist analyses of his native Peru and the struggles of its Indigenous peoples, would go on to influence some of 20th century Latin America’s most prominent revolutionaries.

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Why study Mariátegui?

Mariátegui, like Antonio Gramsci, was a thinker who assiduously applied dialectical and historical-materialist methods to his analysis not only of history, but to art, culture, and human relationships. While his most famous works on Peru may seem immediately relevant only to a Latin American context, Mariátegui should be seen as a model for engaging in what Marx called the “ruthless criticism of all that exists.”

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