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Magisterial Jose Carlos Mariategui
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A MARXIST who was the first to subject the continent to historical materialist analysis, Peruvian Jose Carlos Mariategui remains an emblematic figure in Latin America.
His magisterial Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality, published in 1928, are still essential reading for an understanding of the indigenous peoples' socio-economic realities following the Spanish conquest.
It had obliterated the Inca power elites and state structures but left their communal networks, their culture and organisation practically intact.
