 Among the intellectuals that informed his writings and thought were Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, Milcíades Peña (an Argentine leftist intellectual from the 1960s), Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rodolfo Kuhn and Hector P. Agosti (an influential communist intellectual, responsible for introducing Gramsci to Argentina) .The Cuban Revolution and Che Guevara also played an important role in his intellectual formation.Santucho was a vocal opponent of popular front politics.