Invitation to discovery: José Carlos Mariátegui and the socialism of our America

Abstract

In his theses “On the concept of history” (1940), Walter Benjamin argued that the forces of rebellion of the oppressed have their roots in memory. two defeated, two ancestors who took part in the social struggles of the past. Through das explosive popular uprisings that ecoaram no social cenário during or 20th century, increasing substantively at the present time, to America Latina intuitively followed that rule.