Jose Marti: Revolutionary Democrat

José Martí and Antonio Gramsci: The World as a Radical Geography

“…Remarkably, to contrast scientific racism and biologist discourses, Martí takes back the very concept of “nature” and frees it from any structural relation with social inequality. In so doing, equality (but not within a class discourse, as we mentioned) was for Martí the leading force in building the new republic, and this made him frequently labelled as one of the first radical democrats in Latin America (Abel and Torrents 2015; Estrade 2000). In an article written in 1893, he reiterated the pivotal importance of equality by arguing that “men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another.…”