José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira (June 14, 1894 - April 16, 1930) was a Peruvian writer, journalist, politician and Marxist philosopher.

Quotes

• "La obra maestra no florece sino en un terreno abonado por una anónima u oscura multitud de obras mediocres."
  • The masterpiece flourishes only on land fertilized by an anonymous or obscure multitude of mediocre works. ^{[citation needed]}

• "No es posible democratizar la enseñanza de un país sin democratizar su economía y sin democratizar, por ende, su superestructura política."
  • "It is not possible to democratize the education of a country without democratizing its economy and without democratizing, therefore, its political superstructure."
    • Source: "The process of public instruction" ^{[specific citation needed]}

• "No renegamos, propiamente, la herencia española; renegamos la herencia feudal" ^{[citation needed]}