Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe and representing the future, the Spaniard brought to America the effects and methods of an already declining spirit and economy that belonged to the past.
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| Birth: | 14th June, 1894 |
| Death: | 16th April, 1930 |
| Nationality: | Peruvian |
| Profession: | Activist, Journalist |
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José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century. Mariátegui's most famous work, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, is still widely read in South America.
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