Towards an understanding of violence in José Carlos Mariátegui
Abstract
The understanding of violence is problematized in the work of the Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930). Starting from the premise that such understanding articulates conceptions and concretions of violence, two different conceptions are recognized, first: as a means and as a reaction. Regarding the specificities, it will be argued that this is permeated by a new political agency, by Georges Sorel's concept of myth, which will have more formal than practical effects on it, and by the divergences of the Peruvian social panorama with respect to the social climate international –where the conditions of a revolutionary situation proposed by Lenin will be key to understanding Mariátegui's position.
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