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Jose Carlos Mariategui
Jose Carlos Mariategui La Chira was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century. Mariategui's most famous work, Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality (1928), is still widely read in South America. An avowed, self-taught Marxist, he nonetheless insisted that a socialist revolution should evolve organically in Latin America on the basis of local conditions and practices, not the result of mechanically applying a European formula.
Life and works
Mariategui was born in Moquegua. His father, ...
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