José Carlos Mariátegui
Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira (June 14, 1894 – April 16, 1930) was a Peruvian writer, journalist, politician and Marxist philosopher.[1]
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José Carlos Mariátegui | |
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Born | José del Carmen Eliseo Mariátegui De La Chira 14 June 1894 |
Died | 16 April 1930(1930-04-16) (aged 35) Lima, Peru |
Era | Late modern period |
Region | Latin American philosophy |
School | Marxism |
Main interests | Politics, aesthetics |
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A prolific author despite his early death, El Amauta (from Quechua: hamawt'a, "teacher," a name by which he is also known in his country) is considered one of the greatest scholars of Latin America. His Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928), a synthesis of his thought, became a reference work for the intelligentsia of the continent.
He was the founder of the Peruvian Socialist Party (1927) [es] (PSP) and the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP) in 1927 and 1929 respectively. The PSP initially adhered to Mariateguism [es] for a syndicalist-influenced socialism "without tracing or copying," but after Mariategui's death in 1928 it would be reformed as the Peruvian Communist Party to be in-line with the Comintern's rigid party policy and Marxism-Leninism. In 1930 the party wing loyal to Mariategui would split and form the Socialist Party of Peru (Spanish: Partido Socialista del Perú).
For the sociologist and philosopher Michael Löwy, Mariátegui is "undoubtedly the most vigorous and original Marxist thinker that Latin America has ever known."[2] Along the same lines, José Pablo Feinmann, Argentine philosopher and cultural critic, declared him the "greatest Latin American Marxist philosopher."