Republished here is José Carlos Mariátegui’s Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, a text that is not well-known to English readers. This republication is based on the version contained within Volume II of his Complete Works, with some small improvements made to the translation, grammar, citations, and general presentation. In the interest of our readers we have included the speech given by Chairman Gonzalo of the Communist Party of Peru at San Cristóbal of Huamanga University in Ayacucho, Peru in 1969. This speech will provide the reader with a sufficient background and grasp of Mariátegui’s ideology, method, and practice so as to better understand and contextualize the subsequent work.
Mariátegui’s works are still difficult to obtain in English, especially in their unabridged and unaltered forms, with many volumes being completely unavailable to English readers. Those works of Mariátegui’s that are available to English readers, through various compilations and individual volumes, often present his thought in a distorted manner and incompletely. We are proud to offer our readers this complete and unaltered volume, hitherto unavailable in English, as a humble service to spreading the ideas and works of José Carlos Mariátegui, a titan of Latin American Marxist-Leninist thought and action.
ISBN: 978-1-300-41426-1