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José Carlos Mariátegui and Twenty-first-Century Socialism: Recovery and Renewal

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As Latin America entered the turn to the left, there was a recovery and renewal of the work of José Carlos Mariátegui. The “practical socialism” that he advocated and led… Click to show full abstract

As Latin America entered the turn to the left, there was a recovery and renewal of the work of José Carlos Mariátegui. The “practical socialism” that he advocated and led in the course of a short but brilliant political career (basically, the 1920s) has much to teach us today if set in its proper historical context and not reduced to catchphrases. Mariátegui was, arguably, the first Marxist in Latin America, and his open, imaginative, transgressive, and energizing writings may well illuminate our paths in the 2020s. His was not a Marxist catechism but a living Marxism. What we can take from Mariátegui is a grounded Marxism—devoid of all theoreticisms—that, understood in its historical context, may point toward a period of renewal after the seeming collapse of the left project to build a twenty-first-century socialism. A medida que América Latina dio un giro izquierdista se produjo una recuperación y renovación de la obra de José Carlos Mariátegui. El “socialismo práctico” que él defendió y dirigió durante su corta pero brillante carrera política (básicamente, la década de 1920) tiene mucho que enseñarnos hoy si se mira en su contexto histórico adecuado y no se reduce a frases hechas. Mariátegui fue, posiblemente, el primer marxista latinoamericano y sus escritos abiertos, imaginativos, transgresores y llenos de energía bien pueden iluminar nuestro camino en la década de 2020. El suyo no era un catecismo marxista sino un marxismo vivo. Lo que podemos tomar de Mariátegui es un marxismo fundamentado, desprovisto de todo teoricismo que, entendido en su contexto histórico, puede apuntar hacia un período de renovación después del aparente colapso del proyecto de izquierda para construir un socialismo del siglo XXI.

Keywords: renewal; tegui; carlos mari; jos carlos; mari tegui

Journal Title: Latin American Perspectives
Year Published: 2022

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