José Martí and his vision of the political education in Our America essay

Abstract

This paper offers an approach to the Martian perspective of political education that the Master considered relevant for the rulers of the peoples of our America, exposed primarily in the essay of the same name, but present throughout his work. Marti's arguments on the need to create models of society originating in the Latin American region are analyzed and it is highlighted how the text has the historical value of being one of the first to propose these ideas in a systematic way, in the midst of a desire to the time to imitate the European, forgetting almost completely their own originality, pretending to live a social and cultural life outside.