The construction of contemporary Peru based on the thoughts of Víctor Andrés Belaúnde and José Carlos Mariátegui

Abstract

This article aims to bring us closer to the political imagination of Peru in the first half of the 20th century through the lines of thought of José Carlos Mariátegui and Víctor Andrés Belaúnde. Therefore, this research attempts to approach the construction of contemporary Peru through the ideas of two intellectuals of the generation of 900 who continued to open the debate on modernity in Peru aimed at conceiving in the deepening of knowledge of the reality of a country run by an oligarchy that prevented any inclusion in the collective imagination of the nation. For this reason, many intellectuals have tried to influence the way our country is perceived and understood