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Natú Reads is an audio library of revolutionary texts to improve the accessibility of important works to all those who want to read them.
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Jun 27, 2021 • 1h 41min
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by José Carlos Mariátegui: Essay 4: Public Education
José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian communist whose magnum opus, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, marked a sea change in the Latin American intellectual field. His historical and dialectical materialist analysis of the conditions in Peru, especially on the topics of economic development and the oppression of Indigenous communities, defined the next century of communist agitation throughout the continent. The term Sendero Luminoso, used to refer to the Communist Party of Peru (though they never adopted the name themselves), comes from Mariátegui’s writings. The PCP (Partido Comunista del Perú) counts Mariátegui as one of its principal intellectual forebears, and his work continues to loom large in Latin America and throughout the diaspora. Listen to Public Education, the fourth of the eponymous seven essays, here.For a text copy of Seven Interpretive Essays, where you can read the footnotes largely left out of this audiobook for the sake of cohesion, visit:https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htmTo support me and help make more revolutionary texts accessible to all visit my Patreon page at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Jun 20, 2021 • 1h 31min
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality by José Carlos Mariátegui: Essay 3: The Problem of Land
José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian communist whose magnum opus, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, marked a sea change in the Latin American intellectual field. His historical and dialectical materialist analysis of the conditions in Peru, especially on the topics of economic development and the oppression of Indigenous communities, defined the next century of communist agitation throughout the continent. The term Sendero Luminoso, used to refer to the Communist Party of Peru (though they never adopted the name themselves), comes from Mariátegui’s writings. The PCP (Partido Comunista del Perú) counts Mariátegui as one of its principal intellectual forebears, and his work continues to loom large in Latin America and throughout the diaspora. Listen to The Problem of Land, the third of the eponymous seven essays, here.For a text copy of Seven Interpretive Essays, where you can read the footnotes largely left out of this audiobook for the sake of cohesion, visit:https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htmTo support me and help make more revolutionary texts accessible to all visit my Patreon page at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true

Jun 13, 2021 • 1h 2min
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality: Essays 1-2
José Carlos Mariátegui was a Peruvian communist whose magnum opus, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, marked a sea change in the Latin American intellectual field. His historical and dialectical materialist analysis of the conditions in Peru, especially on the topics of economic development and the oppression of Indigenous communities, defined the next century of communist agitation throughout the continent. The term Sendero Luminoso, used to refer to the Communist Party of Peru (though they never adopted the name themselves), comes from Mariátegui’s writings. The PCP (Partido Comunista del Perú) counts Mariátegui as one of its principal intellectual forebears, and his work continues to loom large in Latin America and throughout the diaspora. Listen to the first two of the eponymous seven essays here.For a text copy of Seven Interpretive Essays, where you can read the footnotes largely left out of this audiobook for the sake of cohesion, visit:https://www.marxists.org/archive/mariateg/works/7-interpretive-essays/index.htmTo support me and help make more revolutionary texts accessible to all visit my Patreon page at:https://www.patreon.com/natu_reads?fan_landing=true