La influencia italiana en el marxismo de Mariátegui y en los Siete Ensayos de Interpretación de la Realidad Peruana

Abstract

The writings of Mariategui show that his European absorbtion of Marxism was primarily through contact with Italian intellectual life Baines is clearly in error overestimating the influence of Henri Barbusse and indicating him as a source of Marxism for the Peruvianl The author of Le Feu represented, rather, the model of an intellectual in crisis who managed to go beyond his nihilistic doubts putting his intellect in the service of the revolution.