Because contemporary sociology, anthropology, and economics have been influenced by Marxism much more in Latin America than in North America, it is important that North Americans become more aware of Mariategui's position and accord it its proper historical significance. Mariategui's thinking was strongly tinged with Marxism. The topics discussed in the essays-economic evolution, the problem of the Indian, the land problem, public education, the religious factor, regionalism and centralism, and the literary process-are in many respects as relevant today as when the book was written. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana), first published in 1928, is Mariategui's major statement of his position and has gone into many editions, not only in Peru but also in other Latin American countries. Generations of Peruvian and other Latin American social thinkers have been profoundly influenced by his writings. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university."-From the Author's Note Jose Carlos Mariategui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. "Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial objective critic.
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