Michael Löwy
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Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and lectures at the Sc
Portrait of Löwy during an event at the Caixa de Pontevedra, 2010
José Carlos Mariátegui
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José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira, sometimes referred to in Peru as El Amauta, was a Peruvian politician, and Marxist writer. A prolific author despite his early death, Mariátegui is considered one of t
Michael Löwy
…in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. The author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994. A descendant of Jewish immigrants from Vienna, Löwy grew up in São Paulo…
Mariátegui in 1929