The former leader of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) during the Peruvian Revolution, Abimael Guzmán, has praised "Seven Interpretive Essays" "on Peruvian Reality" and Mariátegui's works. In the late 1960s at a conference at the University of San Cristobal de Humanga in Ayacucho, Peru, Guzmán praised Mariátegui's "Seven Interpretive Essays", declaring it to be "an unshakable document" and that it "is still very much alive." Marc Becker, a professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University, also praised "Seven Interpretive Essays" in his book "José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology". Becker states that "Mariátegui presents a brilliant analysis of Peruvian, and by extension Latin American, problems from a Marxist point of view."