No. 15 (2015): Ideas and Intellectuals in Latin America
Articles

Mariátegui and the formation of Peru’s Socialist Party

José Aricó
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Categories

Published 2015-07-19

Keywords

  • José Carlos Mariátegui,
  • Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre,
  • American Revolutionary Popular Alliance,
  • Peru's Socialist Party,
  • Communist International

How to Cite

Aricó, José. 2015. “Mariátegui and the Formation of Peru’s Socialist Party”. Pléyade, no. 15 (July):243-85. https://revistapleyade.cl/index.php/OJS/article/view/156.

Abstract

In this article, José Aricó examines the formation of the Socialist Party of Perú, in the context of the split between José Carlos Mariátegui and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the two main leaders of the peruvian popular movement in the late twenties. Aricó’s analysis challenges the hegemonic readings that since the thirties, both communists and ‘apristas’ have made of such episode. The author focuses on the different ways of conceiving which path the national re–foundation of Perú should take, as well as on the diverging political practices carried on by both personalities. Aricó postulates that the most important point of the splitting is possibly the distinct anti–jacobinism of Mariátegui’s political concept and practice, as opposed to the ‘caudillo’s’ personalism that characterized Haya.