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Under the Shadow of José Carlos Mariátegui: socialism and leftist political movements in Peru (1960-1980)

The Peruvian intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui is one of the most important political-ideological references of Latin-American socialism in the 20th century and creator of a new kind of socialism to continent. However, during the 1930s to 1950 the name of Mariátegui wasn't a significant name for the Peruvian left. Only in the 1960 decade was that the Siete Ensayos author's name renumbered as inheritance claimed by political parties and movements that formed the New Left Peru. In this article we will present how the ideas of Mariátegui have been included for these movements within a context of redrafting of the left in the Latin American and world. In a first moment we'll presents the emergence and consolidation trajectory of the new left Peru and its main lines of action. We then producing exactly review of the role that the ideas of Mariátegui played for intellectuals and Peruvians parties linked to these entries.

Peruvian New Left; José Carlos Mariátegui; Socialism


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