Monthly Review Press
José Carlos Mariátegui; an anthology.
This is a selected anthology of the writings of Peruvian Marxist political thinker José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), edited and translated by Vanden (political science and international studies, U. of South Florida) and Becker (history, Truman State U.), who laud Mariátegui as a creative and innovative thinker who "nourished the early Marxist thought of Ernesto Che Guevara, championed the causes of Indigenous peoples, realized the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, asserted a mature Marxist feminism, and even resisted the Stalinization of Latin American Marxist parties" and as a figure of enduring and central importance to ideological struggle in Latin America even as he remains obscure in the English-speaking world. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
