as at the XVII National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Livorno, where the historic split took place and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) was formed. He was part of PSI study circles and took on Marxism as a method of study, when Benito Mussolini was about to take power. According to his analysis, the victory of fascism is the price that a country must pay for the contradictions of the left. He left Italy and traveled throughout Europe hoping to be able to return to Peru. He visited Paris, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Berlin. During this tour, he studied the revolutionary movements that convulsed the European continent after the war. Return to Peru On March 17, 1923, the said returned to Lima, accompanied by his wife and his firstborn. At the invitation of Haya de la Torre, who was the founder and rector, he gave lectures at the Universidad Popular González Prada on the world crisis resulting from the First World War. He was put in charge of the direction of Claridad magazine when its founder, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the future leader of APRA, was expelled to Mexico as an exile. He called for the realization of the United Front of Workers. At the end of that same year he announced the publication of "Vanguardia: Revista Semanal de Renovación Ideológica", co-directed with Félix del Valle, a project that would not be carried out but would later become the magazine Amauta. In 1924, due to his old injury, he had to have his leg amputated. But he did not stop his creative activity because of that, continuing it confined to a wheelchair. He spent a period of rest in Miraflores to move on June 1, 1925 to what would be his most symbolic residence on Washington Street, left, No. 544, today known as the José Carlos Mariátegui House Museum. In October 1925, he founded the Editorial Minerva together with his brother Julius Caesar, which published his works and those of other Peruvian authors, beginning with his first compilation book of essays: The contemporary scene, on world politics. In 1926 he founded the magazine Amauta (wise or teacher in Quechua), which united a broad generation of intellectuals around a new appreciation of national life and gave impetus to the indigenous movement in art and literature. Likewise, he collaborated assiduously in the Lima weekly magazines Variedades and