Jose Marti, the United States, and the Marxist Interpretation of Cuban e-bog

This brief volume is an eloquent statement on the meaning of Jose Mart's thought as well as on how his thought has been harnessed to the needs of ideology in present-day Cuba. Hence, Jose Mart, the United States, and the Marxist Interpretation of Cuban History should quite properly be viewed as a contribution to the sociology of knowledge, and the political processing of the literature.Professor Ripoll's volume gives special attention to Mart's writings on the United States: without sparing the colonialist and annexationist currents of the times, Mart in his writing demonstrated a full and balanced sense of pluralist currents in the United States.The author sees Mart, in his desire for redemption, as a truer socialist and revolutionary than those who seek to cloak themselves in his words. Because Mart believed freedom to be indispensable for the advancement of society, efforts to hitch Mart to a single ideological post are considered futile.