José Carlos Mariátegui, the uncomfortable Amauta. 90 years after his departure

Abstract

In this article I propose a view at José Carlos Mariátegui political and intellectual project as one of the most original and unknown contributions of Latin American revolutionary thought to the construction of Marxism. An open field of anti-capitalist praxis, alien to all sacralization and dogmatism, but rather an open horizon of feeling, thinking, and acting in the changing challenges of historicity scenarios. The paper points out Mariátegui's effort to make Marxism a revolutionary theory, which was not a “copy or copy, but a heroic creation”. And which would serve to build a socialist path in Peru from the material bases of communism Indiano in critical dialogue with the revolutionary currents of thought and political action of his time, an approach that was not well-received by the Latin American organizers of the Communist International and that Mariátegui, due to his premature death, could not continue and materialize.