LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

JOSÉ CARLOS MARIÁTEGUI'S EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Abstract

The resumption of ancestral knowledge, the construction of new epistemologies and the perception of your own reality are important instruments for a broader analysis of the social and political phenomena of regions that were the scene of colonial processes. In this respect, this article seeks through a literature review expose the analyzes of the Marxist thinker José Carlos Mariátegui about Peru and Latin America, to contribute to the debate on the elaboration of new political epistemologies in social studies. We draw the hypothesis that the Peruvian Marxist provides the fundamental bases for the creation of a possible Latin American political epistemology. Seen in these terms, with the help of authors who focus on the epistemological and Marxist discussion, we will investigate the historical and political conditions produced by colonization to promote the rescue of subaltern acquaintance to face European universalism in various instances of knowledge.