WHO IS JOSÉ CARLOS MARIÁTEGUI?
J. C. Mariátegui fought for the interests of the proletariat and the people of Perú, he applied Marxism-Leninism to interpret Peruvian reality and founded the PCP. Mariátegui says in his autobiography: “I was born in 1895. At age 14 I began to work as an delivery boy in a newspaper. Until 1919, I worked in the daily La Prensa, then in El Tiempo, finally in Las Razas. In this last daily we sponsored the university reform. Since 1918, and nauseated by mainstream criollo politics, I became oriented to socialism . . . From the end of 1919 to mid 1923 I traveled in Europe . . . On my return to Perú, in 1923 . . . I explained the European situation and began my investigatory work of Peruvian national reality following the Marxist method. In 1924 I nearly lost my life. I lost a leg . . . I am self-taught.” Source: Inside cover of the “Seven Interpretive Essays of Peruvian Reality.” Tenth edition, Editorial Amauta, Lima, 1965.” Mariátegui always maintained that “Power is conquered by revolutio
