Jose Carlos Mariategui - Restoring Andean Nationalism
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- "Amauta," meaning teacher, is an old Quechua word for a wise elder, and was the name Jose Carlos Mariategui chose for the publication he ran from 1926 till the later years of his life. His most famous work, "Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality," showcases his thought at its best, introducing socialism to the Andes of Peru, while also expressing his profound concern for the Indian peasant.
I'm from Peru, specifically from Cusco, and I consider that the Inca heritage has a strong totalitarian seed in the present days. Today, the Peruvian political subject is in a struggle between a debate between the campaign for the pride of the nation or for the fight for life, property, and liberty. Two opposed positions that would define the future of the andes.
Looking at the country's political scene, I'd have to agree. Rural farmers that are proud of an indigenous past clashing with urban elites that look to the West for direction. The Andes nations need to decide on an identity.
I have to disagree on the idea of thinking that the Andes aren't part of the West. As an andean, I should say that the society of Peru has been a christian farming socialty that preserves its language and pre-westwern tradition in the same way that, for example, the Basque preserves both tradition, the Euskera not chirtian and its roman catholic beliefs.
This channel is excellent. I am also from Peru. Very good content and quite illustrative. Peru has always had a fairly anti-Western tendency. Whenever the people of the country tries to imitate the United States or England, it comes out in a rather quirky and “kitsch” and, what the West exports and reaches Peru, ends up “Peruvianizing” and not the other way around. Although the differences between European-Peruvians and Andean Peruvians cannot be ignored, Peruvians of European descent are usually from a high or medium-high socioeconomic stratum (There are also Peruvians of European origin who do not live in the capital, for example in the regions of Cajamarca, Piura or Junín and their lifestyle is very similar to that of the peasants and Andean people). Because these people (Peruvians of European descent who live in metropolitan Lima) have money, they more easily grasp the capitalist Anglo-Protestant influence, literally the secular Judeo-Christian basis of modern capitalism, because these people can afford to travel the world and also be educated in the best universities, and that influence which they then bring to the country later ends up colliding with the andean-catholic social communitarian way of life of the Andean and Amazonian peoples. And it can't leave it aside the cultural and market globalism, which is evidently the fastest way to alienate with culture and values foreign to other cultures and entire nations. In fact, these differences were what led Vladimir Cerrón, the leader of the political party “Perú Libre” (a communist political party of Peru), to say on Twitter that the southern part of Peru is “communist” and the northern part of the country is “capitalist” (Lima, the capital of Peru is in the center-north of the country). The strong conservatism of Peruvians, of Catholic origin, is what has also prevented Peru from being contaminated by the bad liberal influence of the United States and England.
It would be good you make a video on the evolution of Peruvian nationalism or the investigation of undervalued peruvian figures such as José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, Alberto Wagner de Reyna or Carlos Miró-Quesada Laos.
what's the background music?
El Guerrillero by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)